Jaela

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 67 babies a year in the US.

Baby Names Arena rank
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needs 5 head-to-heads
Win rate
45%
of head-to-heads
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies

Jaela by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Jaela. In the US, 67 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 182 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Jaela

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jaela. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jaelmountain goat, ibex283 in the US (2017)
  • Joelajehovah is god; a form of Joel5 in the US (2017)
  • Jayla1,334 in the US (2017)
  • Jaila56 in the US (2017)
  • Jaeda47 in the US (2017)
  • Jaelah43 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jaela

Names that are said the same way as Jaela, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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