Jalah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jalah has been given to 602 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Jalah, 2024
1 in 478,000
Jalah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jalah?
Jalah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jalah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jalahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalah was born before 2005 — so the typical Jalah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 55.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 597
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (334).
Is Jalah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (48)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.5% average annual change
Spellings of Jalah
Jalah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 66.6% against Jalah's 0.04%.
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 Jalah is used
Across 1910–2025, Jalah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 890,022 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Jalah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jalah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jalah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jalah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.