Jalah
Feminine
Jalah is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 597 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Jalah is a short American girl's name that sits between Jayla and Jala. It echoes the first name of the poet Rumi, whose full name carries both majesty and Rome.
How old is the name Jalah?
Jalah first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Jalah alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 600 people named Jalah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalah most popular?
Jalah peaked in 2000, reaching #2940 nationally. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalah
The poet the world calls Rumi was named Jalal al-Din, 'majesty of the faith'; he was born far to the east, in lands now part of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and spent his life in Konya, in Anatolia, which had once been Roman land, so he became Rumi, 'the Roman'. Jalah may carry the sound of that first name, or of Jayla; the record does not say. It is short, bright and easy to say.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Jalah may be Jayla or Jala respelled, and nothing records which. It resembles the Arabic Jalal, 'majesty', but is not documented as taken from it.
Pronouncing Jalah
JAY-luh
Two syllables with the stress on the first; some families say juh-LAH.
Nicknames for Jalah
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 200048 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2940reached in 2000
- Change vs 2020
- −22.2%7 in 2024, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jalahs among us
people named Jalah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jalah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short and easy to say.
- Rare, so a Jalah is unlikely to share her name.
- Close to familiar names.
- People will write Jayla or Jala.
- The pronunciation varies.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every Jalah is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jalah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jalah in 2025?
- Jalah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jalah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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