Jalayah Girl
How popular is Jalayah?
#1,777 girl name in 2025
113 baby girls were named Jalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 1777th most popular girl name.
Jalayah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,777 for girls (▼ 24 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 113 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-3% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,778 in 2015, #1,524 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (155 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,443 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jalayah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jalayah family of names ranked #1,073 for girls in 2025 (#988 the year before), with 183 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jalayah | 113 | 62% |
| Jalaya | 49 | 27% |
| Jalaiah | 7 | 4% |
| Jalaia | 8 | 4% |
| Jahlayah | 6 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jalayah is most popular
Babies named Jalayah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.5 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (37 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (61 girls)
Jalayah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Jalayah
Questions
- Is Jalayah a boy or girl name?
- Jalayah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jalayah were girls.
- How popular is the name Jalayah?
- 113 baby girls were named Jalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 1777th most popular girl name.
- When was Jalayah most popular?
- Jalayah peaked in 2022, when 155 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,443 in 2022.
- How many people are named Jalayah?
- 2,237 babies have been named Jalayah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,226 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Jalayah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jalayah was most common in Mississippi, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.