Jalaia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- juh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Jalaia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Jalaia come from?
Modern: spelling of Jalaiah; modern coinage with the -iah ending, like Jalayah
Meaning borrowed from Jalaiah.
Is Jalaia a girl's or a boy's name?
Jalaia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jalaia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Jalaia, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Jalaia in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were given Jalaia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,569, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Jalaia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
Names like Jalaia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura Zaniyah Jaliyah Zaliyah Zhamira Kaliyah Zayla Jaziyah Alaia Zariah Kamiyah Jahzara
Other spellings of Jalaia
Names related to Jalaia
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Jalaia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jalaia, updated 20 October 2026.