Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #235 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #235 in 2013; #1,321 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,321 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #235.
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Jaylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #235 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 1,366 (2013).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Jaylah, making it the 1,321st most common girls’ name of the year, down 118 places from #1,203 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 197 girls named Jaylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #235, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,366. For comparison, it was #483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylah in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 9 babies. In all, 10,661 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,575 babies named Jaylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,555 US girls were named Jaylah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 547. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaylah ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #573 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jayla (46,483 babies since 1880), Jaela (2,725 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 Jaylah 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #573 | #531 |
| California | 35 | #845 | #173 |
| Indiana | 7 | #857 | #643 |
| Texas | 26 | #1,077 | #367 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,145 | #617 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,264 | #880 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,305 | #806 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,316 | #567 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,346 | #529 |
| New York | 8 | #1,583 | #721 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,633 | #753 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2022 | 288 | #944 | — | — |
| 2021 | 359 | #790 | — | — |
| 2020 | 373 | #733 | — | — |
| 2019 | 428 | #676 | — | — |
| 2018 | 483 | #623 | — | — |
| 2017 | 488 | #616 | — | — |
| 2016 | 547 | #569 | — | — |
| 2015 | 667 | #483 | — | — |
| 2014 | 914 | #359 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,366 | #235 | — | — |
| 2012 | 678 | #460 | — | — |
| 2011 | 558 | #521 | — | — |
| 2010 | 446 | #657 | — | — |
| 2009 | 397 | #731 | — | — |
| 2008 | 360 | #802 | — | — |
| 2007 | 283 | #960 | — | — |
| 2006 | 293 | #906 | — | — |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2003 | 141 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 2002 | 167 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2001 | 136 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,129 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,038 | — | — |
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).