Meaning not yet researched.
Jalen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 711 in 2025. Its best rank was #106 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #106 in 2000; #443 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jalen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#443 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #106.
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Jalen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 711 boys in 2025. Peak: #106 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 3,513 (2000).
In 2025, 711 US boys were named Jalen, making it the 443rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 24 places from #467 in 2024. That is 50 more than the 661 boys named Jalen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #106, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,513. For comparison, it was #590 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalen in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 42,547 US babies have been given the name, 4.0% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 21,363 babies named Jalen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,733 US boys were named Jalen; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 726. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,402 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jalen ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #205 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaylen (45,951 babies since 1880), Jailen (1,697 babies since 1880), Jaylin (19,608 babies since 1880) and Jaelyn (15,601 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jalyne, Jaline and Jelan are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Al, Alen, Haylen, Jaelin, Jaelyn and Jailyn.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jalyne (157), Jaline (102), Jelan (73), Jelen (28), Jalane (20), Jalian (10), Jalaun (10), Jaliene (6).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 7 | #205 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #241 | #519 |
| New Jersey | 33 | #274 | #637 |
| Maryland | 19 | #290 | #509 |
| New York | 56 | #323 | #681 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #334 | #427 |
| Nevada | 9 | #338 | #473 |
| Florida | 57 | #341 | #512 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #343 | — |
| Alabama | 14 | #384 | #593 |
| California | 84 | #394 | #691 |
| Virginia | 20 | #396 | #364 |
| Kansas | 9 | #408 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #421 | #574 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #438 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #444 | #318 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #448 | #766 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #453 | #550 |
| Idaho | 5 | #457 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #468 | — |
| Georgia | 23 | #471 | #380 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #490 | #846 |
| Ohio | 20 | #525 | #380 |
| Texas | 62 | #527 | #674 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #551 | #442 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #555 | #517 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #568 | #568 |
| Arizona | 12 | #576 | #471 |
| Michigan | 14 | #585 | #492 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #591 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #596 | #431 |
| Missouri | 9 | #614 | #630 |
| Colorado | 8 | #646 | #736 |
| Oregon | 5 | #661 | #663 |
| Illinois | 12 | #730 | #530 |
| Utah | 5 | #748 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #760 | #1,015 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 711 | #443 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,161 | 661 | #467 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,897 | 726 | #429 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,781 | 571 | #520 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,858 | 568 | #517 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,121 | 520 | #547 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,808 | 539 | #531 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,915 | 504 | #551 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,283 | 451 | #599 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,686 | 482 | #575 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,748 | 468 | #590 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,297 | 487 | #572 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,113 | 544 | #501 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,983 | 581 | #470 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,438 | 707 | #401 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,059 | 720 | #394 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,229 | 850 | #361 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,287 | 1,054 | #316 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,971 | 1,282 | #268 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,109 | 1,591 | #228 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,287 | 1,708 | #212 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,826 | 2,022 | #190 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,632 | 2,620 | #155 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,612 | 2,686 | #145 |
| 2001 | 132 | #1,429 | 3,121 | #127 |
| 2000 | 167 | #1,197 | 3,513 | #106 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,445 | 2,037 | #172 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,626 | 1,588 | #204 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,676 | 1,012 | #277 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,186 | 1,367 | #222 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,825 | 1,396 | #211 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,958 | 1,698 | #183 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,871 | 1,392 | #216 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,611 | 612 | #378 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,894 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,537 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,757 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,167 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,696 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,258 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,970 |
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).