Jalé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jalé is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 211 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Persian ژاله (žâle).
- NLNetherlands1 in 298K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)
211 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jale in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Persianژالهžâle(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰelh₂d-“ice”(inferred from the name graph)via ژاله
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Persian ژاله (žâle).
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jalé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 211 | 1 in 1.6M | 141 | Jale | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 58 | 1 in 298K | 58 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 56 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 3 | 1 in 1.1M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
211 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jalé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of jalar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jalé mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Persian ژاله (žâle). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Jalé a male or female name?
- Jalé is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Jalé?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 211 people named Jalé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jale. After it come Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jalé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jalé is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 298 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jalé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 211 people named Jalé in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Jalé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jal%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jalé” — ranked 37148th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.