Meaning not yet researched.
Jaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,332 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,332 in 2006; #5,800 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,800 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,332.
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Jaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,332 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 182 (2007).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Jaela, making it the 5,800th most common girls’ name of the year, down 727 places from #5,073 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 26 girls named Jaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,332, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 182, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,756 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaela in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 10 babies. In all, 2,725 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,333 babies named Jaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 441 US girls were named Jaela; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jayla (46,483 babies since 1880), Jaylah (10,661 babies since 1880), Jaila (2,615 babies since 1880) and Jala (2,058 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jaela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,800 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,073 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2008 | 177 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2006 | 175 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,820 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,669 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,933 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,114 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,515 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,358 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,564 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,364 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,733 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,480 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,369 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).