Meaning not yet researched.
Jalayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,445 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,445 in 2022; #1,786 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jalayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,786 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,445.
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Jalayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,445 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 155 (2022).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Jalayah, making it the 1,786th most common girls’ name of the year, down 28 places from #1,758 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 115 girls named Jalayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,445, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #1,785 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalayah in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 2,237 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,089 babies named Jalayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,260 US girls were named Jalayah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 155. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jalayah ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #402 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jalaya (1,917 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jalaiya, Jalaiyah and Jalayia are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jalaiya (260), Jalaiyah (237), Jalayia (183), Jalayiah (155), Jalaiah (135), Jalaia (107), Jahlaya (93), Jahlayah (36), Jalayha (5).
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 Jalayah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 7 | #402 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #900 | #1,373 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,105 | #1,301 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,203 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,274 | #1,110 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,479 | #1,403 |
| California | 9 | #2,176 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,500 | #1,859 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2022 | 155 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2019 | 140 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,839 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,997 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,457 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,352 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,300 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,281 | — | — |
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).