Jalayah
#1,786 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jalayah has been given to 2,237 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,786 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 155 recorded.
Babies named Jalayah, 2025
1 in 29,300
Jalayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jalayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,300
- 113 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,786
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,337 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jalayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jalayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Jalayah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,237
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (1,089).
Is Jalayah 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
- −28
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −258
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.97×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.9%
- Peak was 2022 (155)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jalayah
Jalayah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 32.6% against Jalayah's 0.66%.
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 Jalayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Jalayah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,632 girls, against 1 in 10,795 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 33,333).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 2,632
- 2Mississippi1 in 4,000
- 3Georgia1 in 5,000
- 4Michigan1 in 5,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 5,882
- 6Florida1 in 6,667
- 7Indiana1 in 7,692
- 8North Carolina1 in 8,333
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.
Jalayah around the world
Where Jalayah 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.
- England & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Jalayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jalayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jalayah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jalayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jalayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.