Meaning not yet researched.
Jailen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,414 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,414 in 2003; #8,523 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jailen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,523 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,414.
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Jailen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,414 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 94 (2003).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jailen, making it the 8,523rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,753 places from #4,770 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 21 boys named Jailen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,414, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #5,382 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Jailen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,281, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 27, in 2000. For comparison, it was #12,288 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jailen in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 13 babies. In all, 1,697 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 915 babies named Jailen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 225 US boys were named Jailen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Jaelyn (15,601 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Jailen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,523 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,770 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,552 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,933 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,424 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,474 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,842 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,657 | 24 | #4,284 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,915 | 19 | #5,005 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,095 | 34 | #3,321 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,288 | 17 | #5,382 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,376 | 36 | #3,087 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,096 | 51 | #2,462 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,883 | 51 | #2,454 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,650 | 65 | #2,077 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,860 | 56 | #2,333 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,542 | 72 | #1,975 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,212 | 80 | #1,820 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,019 | 79 | #1,759 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,532 | 68 | #1,876 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,211 | 92 | #1,478 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,709 | 94 | #1,414 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,544 | 72 | #1,652 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,911 | 56 | #1,943 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,457 | 74 | #1,592 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,301 | 41 | #2,245 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,281 | 42 | #2,175 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,611 | 23 | #3,206 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,378 | 27 | #2,782 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,975 | 21 | #3,238 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,274 | 14 | #4,398 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,556 |
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).