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Jaylah

About 10,661 American babies have been named Jaylah since 1993, most of them around 2013. In 2025 it ranked 1,318th. About 11,000 Jaylahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jaylah

By the numbers

Total US births
10,661
Estimated living today
11,000
Median age today
12
Peak year
2013
Best rank
235th
Rank in 2025
1,318th
First recorded
1993

How old the living Jaylahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,661 babies given the name since 1993, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,900 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 the name comes from

Origin a coined name

20th-century coinage, variant of Jayla.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Jaylah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jaylah is most concentrated in Nevada (3.9×), California (2.6×), Florida (2.1×), Arizona (1.9×).

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

Names of 2013

The most popular girls’ names the year Jaylah peaked:

All the names of 2013

Jaylah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Jaylah 91 2,178th
France girls Jaylah 10 4,669th
Switzerland girls Jaylah 8 1,340th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jaylah: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Jaylah 5 0.000% 1,126th
French girls Switzerland Jaylah 3 0.001% 784th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Related names

Jaylah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.