Jaela
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 175 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,725since 1979
Jaela over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaela has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #3,984 | 37 |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #2,841 | 59 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #2,648 | 66 |
| 2013 | #2,137 | 88 |
| 2012 | #1,846 | 109 |
| 2011 | #1,531 | 143 |
| 2010 | #1,633 | 131 |
| 2009 | #1,463 | 159 |
| 2008 | #1,366 | 177 |
| 2007 | #1,332 | 182 |
| 2006 | #1,331 | 175 |
| 2005 | #1,911 | 101 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 |
| 2003 | #1,813 | 103 |
| 2002 | #1,791 | 100 |
| 2001 | #1,396 | 136 |
| 2000 | #1,577 | 112 |
| 1999 | #1,828 | 87 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,966 | 40 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
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| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaela! It came in at #6,189, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jaela is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#524 · 1 in 2,527
- Missouri#732 · 1 in 4,205
- Louisiana#806 · 1 in 4,045
- Georgia#868 · 1 in 4,802
- Pennsylvania#985 · 1 in 6,918
Best ever in a state: #514 in Connecticut, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #524 | 10 | 1 in 2,527 |
| Missouri | #732 | 7 | 1 in 4,205 |
| Louisiana | #806 | 5 | 1 in 4,045 |
| Georgia | #868 | 11 | 1 in 4,802 |
| Pennsylvania | #985 | 8 | 1 in 6,918 |
| Michigan | #997 | 7 | 1 in 6,352 |
| New Jersey | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 6,548 |
| New York | #1,076 | 14 | 1 in 6,824 |
| Ohio | #1,111 | 7 | 1 in 8,056 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 6,868 |
| Florida | #1,185 | 11 | 1 in 7,826 |
| Virginia | #1,188 | 5 | 1 in 7,524 |
| Illinois | #1,527 | 6 | 1 in 11,038 |
| Texas | #1,876 | 11 | 1 in 15,247 |
| California | #2,053 | 12 | 1 in 19,112 |
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See more about Jaela
- 701 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #5,722)
- 2,543 spots since 2020 (#3,179 → #5,722)
- 2,986 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2006 at #1,331 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,564 girls born in 2007 were named Jaela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,331 in 2006, was only 1 in 10,864 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.9% of all girls named Jaela (1,333) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #6,189 (1979) | #6,189 |
| 1980s | 46 | #7,469 (1982) | #9,163 |
| 1990s | 294 | #1,828 (1999) | #5,036 |
| 2000s | 1,333 | #1,331 (2006) | #1,605 |
| 2010s | 826 | #1,531 (2011) | #2,465 |
| 2020s | 216 | #3,179 (2020) | #4,214 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jaela in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,683 of them was named Jaela, which outranked 93.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).