Jaleah
#2,497 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaleah has been given to 3,727 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,497 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 238 recorded.
Babies named Jaleah, 2025
1 in 46,700
Jaleah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jaleah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 46,700
- 71 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 22,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,497
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 32,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaleah 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 32,366 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaleahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaleah was born before 2012 — so the typical Jaleah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,727
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (1,881).
Is Jaleah 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
- −275
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −815
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,156
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.40×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.8%
- Peak was 2012 (238)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jaleah
Jaleah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 61.3% against Jaleah's 0.89%.
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 Jaleah is used
Across 2016–2025, Jaleah was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 12,734 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 3,846
- 2Georgia1 in 5,000
- 3Florida1 in 6,250
- 4North Carolina1 in 6,667
- 5Alabama1 in 7,143
- 6Mississippi1 in 7,143
- 7Tennessee1 in 8,333
- 8Michigan1 in 10,000
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.
Jaleah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jaleah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jaleah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jaleah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jaleah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.