Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 171 in 2025. Its best rank was #581 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #581 in 2012; #1,302 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,302 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #581.
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Jaylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 171 girls in 2025. Peak: #581 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 505 (2012).
In 2025, 171 US girls were named Jaylee, making it the 1,302nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 15 places from #1,287 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 180 girls named Jaylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #581, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 505. For comparison, it was #746 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylee in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 8,601 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,006 babies named Jaylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,612 US girls were named Jaylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 359. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaylee ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #509 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaylie (1,030 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jailee, Jalea and Jayli 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: Jailee (787), Jalea (720), Jayli (562), Jaelee (491), Jalee (473), Jaley (405), Jailey (369), Jaylei (326), Jalie (305), Jayley (297), Jaylea (276), Jaylia (226), and more.
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 Jaylee in the open dataset we use.
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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 9 | #509 | #505 |
| Oregon | 5 | #673 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #754 | #352 |
| Indiana | 7 | #859 | #644 |
| Ohio | 10 | #915 | #931 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,096 | #793 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,130 | #846 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,240 | #606 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,369 | #747 |
| New York | 7 | #1,735 | #673 |
| California | 9 | #2,181 | #1,154 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2022 | 247 | #1,036 | 6 | #11,485 |
| 2021 | 265 | #981 | — | — |
| 2020 | 282 | #919 | 9 | #8,358 |
| 2019 | 308 | #870 | — | — |
| 2018 | 276 | #959 | 7 | #10,120 |
| 2017 | 321 | #848 | 7 | #10,163 |
| 2016 | 359 | #793 | 7 | #10,138 |
| 2015 | 378 | #746 | 5 | #12,933 |
| 2014 | 403 | #701 | — | — |
| 2013 | 436 | #653 | — | — |
| 2012 | 505 | #581 | 8 | #9,235 |
| 2011 | 491 | #589 | 7 | #10,104 |
| 2010 | 481 | #613 | 7 | #10,141 |
| 2009 | 493 | #613 | 13 | #6,599 |
| 2008 | 437 | #692 | — | — |
| 2007 | 352 | #817 | 6 | #11,552 |
| 2006 | 332 | #820 | 5 | #12,883 |
| 2005 | 307 | #831 | — | — |
| 2004 | 261 | #925 | 11 | #6,728 |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,107 | 11 | #6,453 |
| 2002 | 183 | #1,136 | 13 | #5,542 |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,082 | 7 | #7,160 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,443 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,622 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,618 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,093 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,963 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,361 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,382 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,168 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,047 | — | — |
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).