girls:
1.8k births since 1993
#3992 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1993
#5965 (23rd percentile)
The name Jalaya is the #5,965 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,789 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 22.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,992 (30.1% percentile) for all time with 1,789 births since 1993.
Jalaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993).
For girls, Jalaya reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #837) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 57 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jalaya ranks #900 for girls (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 52.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jalaya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jalaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Jalaya is pronounced as juh-LAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-LAY-yuh, at 16.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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