Jala
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 172 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,058since 1973
Jala over time
Rank among girls' names. Jala 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 |
| 2008 | #2,887 | 61 |
| 2007 | #2,293 | 84 |
| 2006 | #2,031 | 97 |
| 2005 | #1,983 | 96 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 |
| 2003 | #1,477 | 132 |
| 2002 | #1,386 | 139 |
| 2001 | #1,187 | 172 |
| 2000 | #1,335 | 141 |
| 1999 | #1,238 | 152 |
| 1998 | #1,508 | 112 |
| 1997 | #1,914 | 76 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
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| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jala! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jala is popular in 1973
No state had 5 or more girls named Jala in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jala
- 646 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,917)
- 667 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #10,917)
- 5,084 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2001 at #1,187 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,469 girls born in 2001 were named Jala (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.7% of all girls named Jala (1,084) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #5,751 (1979) | #7,274 |
| 1980s | 54 | #7,134 (1986) | #9,119 |
| 1990s | 519 | #1,238 (1999) | #3,447 |
| 2000s | 1,084 | #1,187 (2001) | #1,935 |
| 2010s | 326 | #3,092 (2011) | #4,799 |
| 2020s | 52 | #10,250 (2020) | #10,547 |
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.
Jala in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 291,642 of them was named Jala, which outranked 14.1% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,387 names at #8,423; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.