Jalayah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 99 babies a year in the US.
Jalayah by the numbers
Jalayah was given to 99 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 124 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Jalayah
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 Jalayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jalayah
Names that are said the same way as Jalayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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