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Jaida vs Jaila

American parents have registered 9,659 Jaidas since 1880, against 2,615 Jailas. Jaida is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaida against Jaila, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaida Jaila

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jaida has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Jaida had 37 and Jaila had 16.

Side by side

  Jaida Jaila
Total US births 9,6592,615
Most in one year 598189
Babies in 2025 4716
Estimated living today 9,6002,600
Median age today 1718
Peak year 20082006
Best rank 517th girls1,268th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296th6,838th
First recorded 19771988
Girls / boys 9,659 / 02,615 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaida Jaila
England and Wales 4153

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaida and Jaila.