girls:
590 births since 1993
#5126 (10th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2001
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
595 births since 1993
#7144 (8th percentile)
The name Jalah is the #7,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 595 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,126 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 590 births since 1993. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2001.
Jalah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Jalah is available in 27 out of the 28 years between 1993 and 2020 (27 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jalah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jalah reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #854) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Jalah reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #825) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jalah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jalah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Jalah is pronounced as JAH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-LUH, at 35.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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