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The first name 
Jaleah

Jaleah is a female first name.

Jaleah is a well-known but special name!

Jaleah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,266 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,265 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jaleah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jaleah

Jaleah -
keeping with the times

Jaleah is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jaleah cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #989 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2012. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jaleah, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jaleah seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Jaleah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Jaleah in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

109 babies were named Jaleah in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,359,926 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Jaleah ranked 1,673 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Jaleah -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Jaleah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Jaleah in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Jaleah live in Florida – here, one in 13,832 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 65,327 will turn around if you call her first name Jaleah.

Jaleah has 6 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Jaleah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
J, a, l, e, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Jaleah – J, a, l, e, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Jahlea or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jaleah

If your name is Jaleah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Jaleah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jaleah, you can simply say:

Joker

Apple

Lion

Elephant

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Jaleah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jaleah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jaleah

Jaleah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jaleah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jaleah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
A
L
E
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Jaleah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
A
L
E
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jaleah sounds like this: