In 2025, 13 US girls were named Jalia, making it the 8,068th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,553 places from #4,515 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 31 girls named Jalia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,814, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #3,365 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalia in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 1,614 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 680 babies named Jalia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 341 US girls were named Jalia; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaliyah (12,277 babies since 1880), Jaleah (3,727 babies since 1880), Jaliah (1,176 babies since 1880) and Jaylie (1,030 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaeli, Jahlia and Jali are summarised on this page.