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Jla

Gender
Girl
Say it
JAY-luh
Origin
Modern

Jla is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Jla come from?

Modern: abbreviated spelling, probably of Jayla

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

Jla is a girls' name.

How popular is Jla in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Jla in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 18 in 20112024
Jla in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20247#12,156
20230–
20220–
20216#13,459
20207#12,137
20197#12,442
20187#12,459
20170–
20160–
20159#10,861
20146#14,552
20137#13,145
201212#9,105
201118#6,852
201017#7,214
20099#11,454
200813#8,961
20076#15,485
200617#7,140
20055#16,455
200412#8,711
200315#7,202
200213#7,810
20015#15,345
20006#13,147
199912#7,710
19986#12,420
19970–
19966#11,801
19950–
19945#13,423

Names like Jla

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