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Jayla vs Jaylie

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 1,030 Jaylies. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayla against Jaylie, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayla Jaylie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Jayla had 949 and Jaylie had 39.

Side by side

  Jayla Jaylie
Total US births 46,4831,030
Most in one year 3,41773
Babies in 2025 56920
Estimated living today 46,0001,000
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 99th girls2,557th girls
Rank in 2025 529th5,917th
First recorded 19681997
Girls / boys 46,432 / 511,030 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaylas alive today are over 16; half the Jaylies are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jayla Jaylie
France 7040

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jayla and Jaylie.