Meaning not yet researched.
Jaelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #332 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #332 in 2008; #1,966 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Jaelyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,966 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #332.
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Jaelyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #332 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 1,014 (2008).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Jaelyn, making it the 1,966th most common girls’ name of the year, down 403 places from #1,563 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 136 girls named Jaelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #332, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,014. For comparison, it was #602 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Jaelyn, making it the 5,104th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,465 places from #3,639 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 31 boys named Jaelyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,584, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,938 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaelyn in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 15,601 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,270 babies named Jaelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,594 US girls were named Jaelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 493. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaelyn ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,173 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaylen (45,951 babies since 1880), Jalen (42,547 babies since 1880), Jaylin (19,608 babies since 1880) and Jaylon (10,442 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaelynne, Jaelyne and Jayelynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jaelynne (383), Jaelyne (184), Jayelynn (56), Jahlynn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jaelyn in the open dataset we use.
Jaelyn is listed as a nickname for Jalen.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 7 | #1,173 | #617 |
| New York | 8 | #1,581 | #653 |
| California | 11 | #1,883 | #634 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,116 | #525 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,966 | 19 | #5,104 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,563 | 31 | #3,639 |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,311 | 39 | #3,143 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,185 | 26 | #4,135 |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,076 | 43 | #2,882 |
| 2020 | 254 | #1,003 | 38 | #3,046 |
| 2019 | 270 | #970 | 27 | #3,940 |
| 2018 | 328 | #828 | 37 | #3,127 |
| 2017 | 406 | #708 | 38 | #3,092 |
| 2016 | 493 | #609 | 32 | #3,471 |
| 2015 | 490 | #602 | 40 | #2,938 |
| 2014 | 446 | #641 | 35 | #3,177 |
| 2013 | 496 | #579 | 43 | #2,733 |
| 2012 | 651 | #471 | 45 | #2,695 |
| 2011 | 760 | #417 | 66 | #2,043 |
| 2010 | 865 | #369 | 72 | #1,943 |
| 2009 | 942 | #348 | 102 | #1,584 |
| 2008 | 1,014 | #332 | 76 | #1,908 |
| 2007 | 905 | #360 | 64 | #2,125 |
| 2006 | 722 | #442 | 61 | #2,133 |
| 2005 | 606 | #501 | 51 | #2,312 |
| 2004 | 576 | #505 | 56 | #2,116 |
| 2003 | 528 | #535 | 56 | #2,042 |
| 2002 | 510 | #538 | 41 | #2,446 |
| 2001 | 460 | #563 | 39 | #2,508 |
| 2000 | 412 | #617 | 49 | #2,070 |
| 1999 | 317 | #714 | 41 | #2,243 |
| 1998 | 234 | #901 | 59 | #1,728 |
| 1997 | 164 | #1,140 | 26 | #2,933 |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,321 | 14 | #4,487 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,498 | 13 | #4,631 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,844 | 11 | #5,234 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,200 | 10 | #5,518 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,368 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,112 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,115 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,331 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,155 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,014 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,792 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,565 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,388 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,529 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,138 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,267 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,004 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).