girls:
45k births since 1968
#626 (89th percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1999
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
45.1k births since 1968
#1155 (85th percentile)
The name Jayla is the #1,155 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,099 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 85.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #626 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 45,048 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1999.
Jayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1999 for boys). Birth data for Jayla is available in 52 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 8 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 Jayla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jayla reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 89.8% percentile (ranked #99) with 1,631 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 1,631 births per million (ranked 89.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jayla ranks #332 for girls (65.0% percentile) with 490 births per million, which is 30.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jayla reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #840) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jayla".
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