How rare is the name Jayla?

34,334 people in the United States have the first name Jayla, about 1 in 8,797. It ranks #1,154 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAYLA

#1,154

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
34,334
About
1 in 8,797
This common or more
72%
Who bears it

Of the 34,334 people named Jayla, 55.8% reported their origin as Black, 17.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 14.7% as White. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jayla peaked in 2006, when 3,417 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
3,417
In 2025*
569 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 46,483 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jayla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #357. The largest share of babies named Jayla, 63.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#14,95510
1970s#10,04971
1980s#5,046282
1990s#1,1843,499
2000s#35720,786
2010s#42816,554
2020s#7305,281
Generation X 1965–800.2%
Millennials 1981–963.3%
Generation Z 1997–1263.1%
2013 and later33.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jayla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jayla has been most common in Florida (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×), and Nevada (2×), and least common in Oregon (0.28×).

45,101 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jayla

#1,152 Rickey · 34,441#1,153 Adan · 34,348#1,155 Noelle · 34,332#1,156 Alvaro · 34,180

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jayla, most common first.

#3,248 Jaylah · 6,591#7,370 Jaela · 2,076#7,723 Jaila · 1,944#7,902 Jala · 1,874#21,612 Jayli · 468#26,142 Jaala · 358#32,261 Jaylea · 262#32,949 Jayle · 253

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