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Jala

#11,321 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jala has been given to 2,058 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #11,321 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 172 recorded.

Babies named Jala, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jala over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jala: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jala means

Jala is a given name.

The naming story behind Jala

Wikidata records Jala as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q56885272, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,058 girls were recorded with the name Jala between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 172 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,188 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,608 in 2020 to #11,321 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,910 in 2015 to #11,321 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jala?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,321
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jala sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jala was born before 2002 — so the typical Jala is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,058
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (1,084).

Is Jala rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−708
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−713
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,411
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 2001 (172)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,188
2001

Spellings of Jala

Jala is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 7.2% against Jala's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jala is used

Across 1910–2025, Jala was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 115,799 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jala around the world

Where Jala ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2018–2018
    #6,184
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1988–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jala by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,321
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 713
Best rank ever
#1,188
2001
Peak year
2001
172 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,058
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jala

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JaliaGalaHalaLalaJalayaJalynJalaniTalaJaleaJaliahJaleahJalenaJalenMalaJalayahJalynnNalaJaleyJalyssaAyalaKalaJalisaJalinaJaliya

Names with a curve like Jala

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jala, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YulisaTehyaMacaylaAidanMykaylaAysiaMikailaShanyaGisselMackenziTyasiaCitlalli

Sibling names for Jala

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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