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Jalayla

Gender
Girl
Say it
juh-LAY-luh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#6,545 for girls

Jalayla is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).

Where does Jalayla come from?

Modern: blend of the prefix Ja- and Layla

Is Jalayla a girl's or a boy's name?

Jalayla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jalayla in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,545th among girls
Babies in 2025
17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady much the same
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Jalayla, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Jalayla in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 25 in 20202025
Jalayla in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#6,545
202419#6,164
202316#6,917
202213#8,027
202111#8,973
202025#5,001
201912#8,592
201815#7,405
201714#7,836
201610#10,109
201520#6,234
201414#8,050
201315#7,744
20128#12,193
201121#6,145
201019#6,638
200917#7,338
200814#8,525
200715#8,094
200613#8,711
20058#11,828
200413#8,254
20038#11,319
20020–
20015#15,345

Nicknames for Jalayla

Names like Jalayla

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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, “Jalayla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jalayla, updated 20 October 2026.