Jayleigh
Jayleigh was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,107 among girls’ names; 1,549 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Jayleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayleigh?
#4,107 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayleigh fell from #2,421 in 2015 to #4,107 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.6 to 21.8 per million.
102 babies in 2011, the peak
Jayleigh peaked in 2011, when 102 girls were given it, #1,947 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,107 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,155 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,296 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,187 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,905 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,943 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,413 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,795 | 35.9 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,074 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,399 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,421 | 42.6 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,221 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,996 | 55.8 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,008 | 55.1 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,947 | 58.0 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,190 | 50.1 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,194 | 49.0 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,673 | 36.5 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,468 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,883 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,287 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,410 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,149 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,986 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,919 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,235 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,755 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,108 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayleigh, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,549 Americans ever recorded as Jayleigh. The median Jayleigh alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,041 people named Jayleigh (1,037 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,271 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 734 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 803 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jayleigh born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,504 | 1.2× |
Where Jayleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayleigh is most over-represented in Texas: since 1998 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jayleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,018 babies since 1880, Jayleigh is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 72 babies (49%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jayleigh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jayleigh and names like it
- Compare Jayleigh and JaleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJayleigh peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jayleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jayleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.