Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 907 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 2009; #361 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Jaylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#361 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #175.
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Jaylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 907 boys in 2025. Peak: #175 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 2,236 (2009).
In 2025, 907 US boys were named Jaylen, making it the 361st most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #324 in 2024. That is 159 fewer than the 1,066 boys named Jaylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #175, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,236. For comparison, it was #343 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Jaylen, making it the 4,109th most common girls’ name of the year, down 972 places from #3,137 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 51 girls named Jaylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #859, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 324. For comparison, it was #1,524 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylen in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 14 babies. In all, 45,951 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 21,030 babies named Jaylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,230 US boys were named Jaylen; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,883 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaylen ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #163 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jalen (42,547 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 Jalene, Jayline and Jaleen 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: Jalene (1,227), Jayline (1,115), Jaleen (724), Jaelon (673), Jailin (522), Jaelene (489), Jaylenn (327), Jaylean (325), Jaelan (312), Jaeleen (306), Jailon (274), Jaylenne (243), 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 Jaylen 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 41 | #163 | #317 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #193 | — |
| Florida | 99 | #216 | #207 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #247 | #246 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #248 | — |
| Virginia | 33 | #265 | #294 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #269 | #123 |
| New Jersey | 33 | #275 | #312 |
| New York | 65 | #288 | #402 |
| Alabama | 19 | #292 | #229 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #298 | #494 |
| Georgia | 41 | #304 | #169 |
| Nevada | 10 | #312 | #296 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #321 | #215 |
| Indiana | 23 | #330 | #432 |
| Maryland | 16 | #335 | #216 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #346 | #436 |
| Ohio | 30 | #367 | #292 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #369 | — |
| Arkansas | 9 | #376 | #252 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #394 | #296 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #399 | #408 |
| Kansas | 9 | #411 | #624 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #425 | #139 |
| California | 74 | #434 | #465 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #435 | #604 |
| Missouri | 14 | #444 | #450 |
| Michigan | 18 | #470 | #307 |
| Illinois | 22 | #477 | #318 |
| Texas | 70 | #481 | #400 |
| Washington | 15 | #483 | #482 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #527 | #398 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #594 | #343 |
| Iowa | 5 | #619 | #485 |
| Arizona | 10 | #654 | #473 |
| Utah | 6 | #658 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,109 | 907 | #361 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,137 | 1,066 | #324 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,476 | 1,245 | #270 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,355 | 1,053 | #320 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,079 | 1,045 | #317 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,915 | 1,037 | #319 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,792 | 998 | #336 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,559 | 983 | #340 |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,411 | 995 | #343 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,428 | 901 | #369 |
| 2015 | 148 | #1,524 | 1,004 | #343 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,443 | 1,097 | #317 |
| 2013 | 185 | #1,278 | 1,200 | #291 |
| 2012 | 229 | #1,085 | 1,434 | #256 |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,063 | 1,727 | #206 |
| 2010 | 289 | #905 | 1,812 | #203 |
| 2009 | 310 | #884 | 2,236 | #175 |
| 2008 | 324 | #859 | 2,156 | #185 |
| 2007 | 321 | #871 | 2,085 | #193 |
| 2006 | 247 | #1,039 | 2,077 | #191 |
| 2005 | 218 | #1,094 | 1,999 | #194 |
| 2004 | 250 | #960 | 1,791 | #205 |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,152 | 1,814 | #203 |
| 2002 | 168 | #1,206 | 1,598 | #215 |
| 2001 | 163 | #1,236 | 1,426 | #238 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,313 | 1,514 | #224 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,437 | 980 | #293 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,822 | 758 | #349 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,405 | 451 | #478 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,188 | 426 | #495 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,435 | 385 | #520 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,326 | 357 | #543 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,181 | 238 | #668 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,816 | 101 | #1,095 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,122 | 8 | #6,191 |
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).