Jalayia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- juh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Jalayia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Jalayia come from?
Modern: blend of Ja- and Laya or Layla
Is Jalayia a girl's or a boy's name?
Jalayia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jalayia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Jalayia, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Jalayia in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were given Jalayia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,569, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Jalayia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
Names like Jalayia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Jaliyah, Zaliyah, Kaliyah, Jaziyah, Aaliyah, Zayla, Aziyah, Safa, Kamiyah, Hadassah, Zahara
Other spellings of Jalayia
Names related to Jalayia
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, “Jalayia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jalayia, updated 20 October 2026.