Jaylah
#1,318 for girls in 2025, 169 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 1,366 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,661since 1993
Jaylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaylah has never cracked the top 200 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 | #1,318 | 169 |
| 2024 | #1,202 | 197 |
| 2023 | #1,098 | 223 |
| 2022 | #940 | 288 |
| 2021 | #790 | 359 |
| 2020 | #732 | 373 |
| 2019 | #675 | 428 |
| 2018 | #623 | 483 |
| 2017 | #616 | 488 |
| 2016 | #569 | 547 |
| 2015 | #483 | 667 |
| 2014 | #359 | 914 |
| 2013 | #235 | 1,366 |
| 2012 | #459 | 678 |
| 2011 | #521 | 558 |
| 2010 | #656 | 446 |
| 2009 | #730 | 397 |
| 2008 | #802 | 360 |
| 2007 | #959 | 283 |
| 2006 | #905 | 293 |
| 2005 | #1,244 | 182 |
| 2004 | #1,302 | 164 |
| 2003 | #1,411 | 141 |
| 2002 | #1,209 | 167 |
| 2001 | #1,396 | 136 |
| 2000 | #1,744 | 100 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 |
| 1998 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaylah! It came in at #8,719, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Jaylah is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#205 · 1 in 704
- Nevada#240 · 1 in 930
- California#254 · 1 in 1,298
- South Carolina#429 · 1 in 1,786
- Illinois#442 · 1 in 2,058
Best ever in a state: #87 in California, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #205 | 9 | 1 in 704 |
| Nevada | #240 | 12 | 1 in 930 |
| California | #254 | 157 | 1 in 1,298 |
| South Carolina | #429 | 10 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Illinois | #442 | 28 | 1 in 2,058 |
| Virginia | #496 | 16 | 1 in 2,321 |
| Mississippi | #553 | 5 | 1 in 2,219 |
| Florida | #558 | 31 | 1 in 2,797 |
| Oklahoma | #569 | 7 | 1 in 2,399 |
| Texas | #575 | 57 | 1 in 2,935 |
| Georgia | #592 | 17 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Louisiana | #596 | 8 | 1 in 2,623 |
| Alabama | #605 | 7 | 1 in 2,768 |
| New York | #614 | 28 | 1 in 3,209 |
| Kansas | #615 | 5 | 1 in 2,522 |
| New Jersey | #615 | 12 | 1 in 3,048 |
| Indiana | #624 | 10 | 1 in 3,029 |
| Arizona | #637 | 10 | 1 in 3,094 |
| Washington | #653 | 10 | 1 in 3,214 |
| Michigan | #660 | 12 | 1 in 3,506 |
| Oregon | #669 | 5 | 1 in 3,040 |
| Tennessee | #694 | 9 | 1 in 3,449 |
| Colorado | #712 | 7 | 1 in 3,366 |
| North Carolina | #731 | 12 | 1 in 3,776 |
| Massachusetts | #750 | 6 | 1 in 4,246 |
| Maryland | #777 | 6 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Ohio | #878 | 10 | 1 in 5,207 |
| Pennsylvania | #940 | 9 | 1 in 5,761 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jaylah
- 116 spots since 2024 (#1,202 → #1,318)
- 586 spots since 2020 (#732 → #1,318)
- 835 spots since 2015 (#483 → #1,318)
- Biggest jump: 339 spots in 2006 (#1,244 → #905)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 2023 (#940 → #1,098)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2013 at #235 (1,366 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2006–2022
- Highest: 1 in 1,285 girls born in 2013 were named Jaylah (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,510 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 61.7% of all girls named Jaylah (6,575) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 254 | #1,893 (1999) | #4,723 |
| 2000s | 2,223 | #730 (2009) | #1,170 |
| 2010s | 6,575 | #235 (2013) | #520 |
| 2020s | 1,609 | #732 (2020) | #1,013 |
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.
Jaylah in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 3,240 of them was named Jaylah, which outranked 97.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.