Jalina
Feminine
Jalina joins the Ja- prefix to an ending that has a real life of its own. Lina is a complete name across Europe and the Arab world — a short form of Carolina, Angelina and Adelina in one tradition, and an Arabic word for a young palm in another. Jalina takes that ending and gives it an American front. Its peak is 2011.
How old is the name Jalina?
Jalina first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Jalina alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 700 people named Jalina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalina most popular?
Jalina peaked in 2011, reaching #4466 nationally. Today it ranks #5917, 1,451 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lina to Jalina
Our story of Jalina
Endings that are also complete names behave differently from endings that are not. A suffix like -iyah or -lyn has no independent life, so a name built with it is a single unit with no internal seam. But -lina is a name, and that means Jalina has a visible join: an English speaker meeting it will see Lina inside it and hear the name as Ja plus something rather than as one word. That has practical consequences. It supplies a ready-made nickname that requires no invention, it makes the pronunciation obvious because the second half is already known, and it gives the name a fallback that stands on its own if the bearer ever wants one. Names built from a prefix plus an existing name are, in that respect, more conservative than they look — half the work has already been done by somebody else, several centuries ago, in a language the family may never have spoken.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented meaning for the whole. The Ja- prefix carries no lexical content. Lina has two genuine sources: as a European short form it inherits whatever the longer name means, so nothing of its own; as an Arabic name it is generally connected to a word for a young palm tree, or to a root meaning tenderness. Neither reaches Jalina by any traceable route. The construction is describable and the meaning is not.
How the name formed
- Lina
- Jalina
Related forms: Jaleena · Lina
Pronouncing Jalina
juh-LEE-nuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with a long e. A second saying, juh-LY-nuh with the long i of line, is also heard on this spelling. Both circulate in American use.
Nicknames for Jalina
High
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
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 201132 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4466reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +53.8%20 in 2025, from 13
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.
Jalina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jaleena in English — spelling variant
- Lina in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Jalinas among us
people named Jalina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was named Jalina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tamsin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jalina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tamsin climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tamsin's path sketches the road Jalina is walking now.
Jalina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jalina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jalina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lina is a complete, internationally recognized name available as a short form.
- The spelling is short, phonetic and easy to write.
- It sits in a familiar sound family, so it is placed correctly on first hearing.
- Two vowel readings circulate and the spelling does not settle which.
- Jalina, Jaleena and Jalena all exist, so records will drift.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound as a whole.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jalina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jalina in 2025?
- Jalina ranks #5917 among US girl names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jalina?
- About 1 in every 80,363 US girls born in 2025 was named Jalina — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jalina with classmates?
- Jalina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jalina
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