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Jalaya

The girl's name Jalaya has been in the national records since 1993, with 1,917 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th. About 1,900 Jalayas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jalaya

By the numbers

Total US births
1,917
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
12
Peak year
2010
Best rank
1,818th
Rank in 2025
3,211th
First recorded
1993

How old the living Jalayas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,917 babies given the name since 1993, about 1,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jalaya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jalaya is most concentrated in South Carolina (8.4×), Louisiana (6.1×), Florida (3.6×), Georgia (3.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular girls’ names the year Jalaya peaked:

All the names of 2010

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Jalaya against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.