Girls' name · since 1996
Jela
68 babies named Jela in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 68
- total births
- 1996–2023
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
68 girls have been named Jela since 1996, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jela has 68 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2023.
- 68 total births
- 1996–2023 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jela's 68 recorded births place it above 56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jela's full recorded timeline at 2001, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2008, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1998 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2023
- Peak year (1998)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Jela by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jela's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Jela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
34 births
- 2000s
2000s
25 births
- 2020s 9
2020s
9 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 34 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Jela's decade-level peak was the 1990s (34 total births); usage has since declined to 9 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jela: Baby Name Since 1996 - 68 Births, Peak 1998." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jela. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.