Jaelah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- JAY-la
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Jaelah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “mountain goat; ibex”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Jaelah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Jaela; probably a form of Jael
“mountain goat; ibex”
Jael is the heroine of Judges 4 who killed the Canaanite general Sisera.
Meaning borrowed from Jaela.
Is Jaelah a girl's or a boy's name?
Jaelah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jaelah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Jaelah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 62 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Jaelah than any year since 1996.
Half of all the girls named Jaelah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 771 girls in the US were given Jaelah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #427, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Jaelah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,551 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,704 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,324 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,934 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,795 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,937 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,360 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,053 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,481 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,315 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,082 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,004 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,655 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Jaelah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Selah Aaliyah Salem Jaliyah Zaniyah Kaliyah Taliyah Zainab Azariah Safa Farah
Other spellings of Jaelah
Names related to Jaelah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jaelah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaelah, updated 20 October 2026.