Jayla

What Jayla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jayla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #238 in 2015, #529 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jayla?

US: Falling: down from #238 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2945 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 3,410 girls got the name (#99 that year). First in the US records in 1968.

How common

• About 1 in 2,825 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,036 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IA (0.85 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.79 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.7 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Jayla is #529 in the US and #973 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jayla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jaylah169 US · 7 E&W
• Jaylee171 US
• Jaela21 US · 4 E&W
• Jaeli20 US
• Jayli19 US
• Jailah18 US
• Jaila16 US
• Jaylei8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jayla

Girls

• Isabelle#166Variant of Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025

For a brother

• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Isaiah#57Editor’s note Down from #49 in 2015 to #57 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 320 US boys in the 2025 records
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jayla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.