Meaning not yet researched.
Jalyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,138 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,138 in 2001; #7,379 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Jalyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,379 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,138.
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Jalyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,138 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 122 (2001).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Jalyn, making it the 7,379th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,619 places from #5,760 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 16 boys named Jalyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,138, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 122. For comparison, it was #4,789 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Jalyn, making it the 10,441st most common girls’ name of the year, up 180 places from #10,621 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 girls named Jalyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #688, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 355, in 2003. For comparison, it was #3,623 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalyn in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 6,622 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,696 babies named Jalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 188 US boys were named Jalyn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 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). Rarer spellings such as Jalayne are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jalayne (74).
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 Jalyn 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 | #10,441 | 11 | #7,379 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,621 | 16 | #5,760 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,269 | 24 | #4,393 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,791 | 20 | #4,917 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,078 | 12 | #6,863 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,550 | 15 | #5,819 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,362 | 31 | #3,598 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,706 | 22 | #4,526 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,100 | 23 | #4,380 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,909 | 14 | #6,168 |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,623 | 20 | #4,789 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,724 | 28 | #3,729 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,315 | 24 | #4,117 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,363 | 32 | #3,414 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,919 | 51 | #2,455 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,558 | 61 | #2,181 |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,578 | 60 | #2,210 |
| 2008 | 206 | #1,230 | 66 | #2,098 |
| 2007 | 225 | #1,143 | 83 | #1,776 |
| 2006 | 279 | #939 | 98 | #1,530 |
| 2005 | 277 | #906 | 108 | #1,385 |
| 2004 | 307 | #819 | 99 | #1,429 |
| 2003 | 355 | #721 | 108 | #1,299 |
| 2002 | 283 | #826 | 105 | #1,290 |
| 2001 | 316 | #758 | 122 | #1,138 |
| 2000 | 343 | #688 | 113 | #1,203 |
| 1999 | 233 | #907 | 81 | #1,441 |
| 1998 | 197 | #1,012 | 66 | #1,590 |
| 1997 | 140 | #1,267 | 62 | #1,634 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,300 | 74 | #1,417 |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,296 | 56 | #1,636 |
| 1994 | 127 | #1,333 | 44 | #1,909 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,439 | 35 | #2,232 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,492 | 11 | #5,026 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,934 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,695 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,717 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,275 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,011 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,365 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,684 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,482 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,701 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,316 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,847 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,910 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,877 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,408 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,680 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,623 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,305 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,212 | — | — |
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).