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Jaylah

#1,321 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jayla

Jaylah has been given to 10,661 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,321 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 1,366 recorded.

Babies named Jaylah, 2025

1 in 19,600

Jaylah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaylah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jayla

coinages

What Jaylah means

Jaylah is a variant of Jayla.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaylah is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Jaylah is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jayla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,661 girls were recorded with the name Jaylah between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,366 in 2013; its best national rank was #235 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #733 in 2020 to #1,321 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #483 in 2015 to #1,321 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,600
169 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,510
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,321
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaylah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaylah was born before 2013 — so the typical Jaylah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,661
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2010s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (6,575).

Is Jaylah 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
−118
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−588
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−838
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.4%
Peak was 2013 (1,366)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#235
2013

Spellings of Jaylah

Jaylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 41.6% against Jaylah's 1.3%.

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 Jaylah is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaylah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,176 girls, against 1 in 4,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

285 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,176
  2. 2California1 in 2,000
  3. 3Nevada1 in 2,174
  4. 4Arizona1 in 3,226
  5. 5Texas1 in 3,571
  6. 6Illinois1 in 3,704
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 3,704
  8. 8Florida1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Jaylah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 85% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Jaylah around the world

Where Jaylah 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 & Wales
    2006–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #4,669
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,321
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 588
Best rank ever
#235
2013
Peak year
2013
1,366 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,661
Count in 2025
169

Names similar to Jaylah

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

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Names with a curve like Jaylah

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

GiulianaBraelynBryleeKenleyLilyanaJayleenPaitynAddisynAnnabellaYaretziKinleyJordynn

Sibling names for Jaylah

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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