Meaning not yet researched.
Jayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 569 in 2025. Its best rank was #99 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #99 in 2006; #530 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#530 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #99.
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Jayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 569 girls in 2025. Peak: #99 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 3,410 (2006).
In 2025, 569 US girls were named Jayla, making it the 530th most common girls’ name of the year, down 126 places from #404 in 2024. That is 219 fewer than the 788 girls named Jayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #99, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,410. For comparison, it was #238 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jayla in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 10 babies. In all, 46,483 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 20,786 babies named Jayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,659 US girls were named Jayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,391. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,825 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jayla ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #335 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaylah (10,661 babies since 1880), Jaela (2,725 babies since 1880), Jaila (2,615 babies since 1880) and Jala (2,058 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaelah, Jalah and Jaala 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: Jaelah (914), Jalah (602), Jaala (363), Jaiyla (124), Jaylaa (123), Jaella (90), Jahla (53), Jaalah (42), Jalai (32), Jaiylah (28), Jaeyla (18), Jalae (13), and more.
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 Jayla 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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 10 | #335 | #240 |
| Florida | 52 | #352 | #167 |
| Maryland | 14 | #388 | #314 |
| Virginia | 21 | #390 | #214 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #404 | #129 |
| New York | 43 | #408 | #219 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #427 | #177 |
| Indiana | 16 | #431 | #306 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #458 | #240 |
| Georgia | 25 | #460 | #198 |
| Kansas | 7 | #471 | #674 |
| Texas | 68 | #479 | #243 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #481 | #183 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #503 | #295 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #520 | #349 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #546 | #202 |
| Alabama | 9 | #548 | #249 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #568 | #260 |
| California | 57 | #569 | #255 |
| Ohio | 18 | #575 | #194 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #589 | #168 |
| Arizona | 11 | #604 | #397 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #641 | #183 |
| Illinois | 15 | #642 | #183 |
| Colorado | 8 | #664 | #331 |
| Michigan | 11 | #703 | #228 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #763 | #186 |
| Washington | 7 | #850 | #476 |
| Missouri | 5 | #989 | #262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 569 | #530 | — | — |
| 2024 | 788 | #404 | — | — |
| 2023 | 862 | #355 | — | — |
| 2022 | 949 | #340 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,039 | #308 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,074 | #301 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,286 | #251 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,351 | #241 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,350 | #237 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,391 | #232 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,394 | #238 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,625 | #207 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,839 | #174 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,847 | #170 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,090 | #149 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,381 | #132 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,539 | #128 | 5 | #13,321 |
| 2008 | 2,927 | #117 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,625 | #131 | 6 | #11,551 |
| 2006 | 3,410 | #99 | 7 | #10,046 |
| 2005 | 1,765 | #197 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,561 | #216 | 12 | #6,311 |
| 2003 | 1,661 | #200 | 5 | #11,696 |
| 2002 | 1,571 | #210 | 5 | #11,472 |
| 2001 | 1,422 | #222 | 6 | #9,814 |
| 2000 | 1,259 | #261 | — | — |
| 1999 | 982 | #316 | 5 | #10,646 |
| 1998 | 715 | #387 | — | — |
| 1997 | 544 | #461 | — | — |
| 1996 | 421 | #554 | — | — |
| 1995 | 307 | #694 | — | — |
| 1994 | 158 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,356 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,213 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,001 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,747 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,775 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,607 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,603 | — | — |
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).