Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #635 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #635 in 2000; #2,658 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,658 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #635.
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Jaylan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #635 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 321 (2006).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Jaylan, making it the 2,658th most common boys’ name of the year, up 586 places from #3,244 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 37 boys named Jaylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #635, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 321, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,041 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Jaylan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,684, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #7,107 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylan in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 5,539 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,018 babies named Jaylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 593 US boys were named Jaylan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaylan ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,082 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), 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 Jaylan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,082 | #1,808 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,745 | #1,700 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,658 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,244 |
| 2023 | — | — | 49 | #2,672 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,804 | 62 | #2,307 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,277 | 56 | #2,422 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,163 | 58 | #2,333 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,813 | 64 | #2,195 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,132 | 73 | #2,006 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,087 | 79 | #1,865 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,175 | 66 | #2,121 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,107 | 70 | #2,041 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,457 | 70 | #2,030 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,730 | 88 | #1,689 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,025 | 102 | #1,553 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,736 | 122 | #1,372 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,528 | 161 | #1,151 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,620 | 182 | #1,045 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,121 | 206 | #972 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,158 | 250 | #847 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,388 | 321 | #693 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,838 | 277 | #729 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,526 | 277 | #698 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,061 | 249 | #730 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,217 | 255 | #702 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,069 | 292 | #638 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,684 | 289 | #635 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,802 | 196 | #784 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,193 | 160 | #903 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,274 | 168 | #846 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,764 | 133 | #965 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,105 | 100 | #1,148 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,556 | 69 | #1,411 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,739 | 55 | #1,628 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,390 | 18 | #3,526 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,859 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,464 |
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).