Girls' name · since 1999
Jeleah
Jeleah has 52 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2006 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #34,560 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 52
- born since 1999
- 2010s
- peak decade
Jeleah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 52 recorded since 1999.
Jeleah has 52 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2016.
- #34,560 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 52 born since 1999
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jeleah ranks #34,560 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 52 born since 1999, peaking in the 2010s.
- #34,560 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 52
- born since 1999
- 2010s
- peak decade
Jeleah's 52 recorded births place it above 52.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jeleah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jeleah's SSA record in two at 2011 and the more recent half accounts for 54% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 46%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1999, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2006 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jeleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2016
- Peak year (2006)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Jeleah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (28 births, 54% of the file).
2010s was Jeleah's strongest decade.
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Jeleah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
19 births
- 2010s
2010s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 28 births (54% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jeleah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1999–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Jeleah 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 August 2026.