Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #398 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #398 in 2002; #1,816 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaylon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,816 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #398.
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Jaylon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 boys in 2025. Peak: #398 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 646 (2002).
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Jaylon, making it the 1,816th most common boys’ name of the year, up 12 places from #1,828 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 89 boys named Jaylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #398, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 646. For comparison, it was #1,135 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylon in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 10,442 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,511 babies named Jaylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,268 US boys were named Jaylon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 157. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,410 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaylon ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #832 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 Jaylon 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #832 | #476 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,033 | #758 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,180 | #1,042 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,195 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,363 | #875 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,699 | #783 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 88 | #1,816 |
| 2024 | — | — | 89 | #1,828 |
| 2023 | — | — | 108 | #1,615 |
| 2022 | — | — | 124 | #1,462 |
| 2021 | — | — | 128 | #1,427 |
| 2020 | — | — | 143 | #1,283 |
| 2019 | — | — | 152 | #1,241 |
| 2018 | — | — | 135 | #1,336 |
| 2017 | — | — | 144 | #1,269 |
| 2016 | — | — | 157 | #1,205 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,618 | 167 | #1,135 |
| 2014 | — | — | 174 | #1,097 |
| 2013 | — | — | 170 | #1,090 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,729 | 200 | #996 |
| 2011 | — | — | 223 | #908 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,122 | 303 | #750 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,655 | 393 | #638 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,386 | 417 | #602 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,195 | 458 | #562 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,380 | 548 | #482 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,286 | 528 | #475 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,921 | 613 | #427 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,169 | 601 | #427 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,209 | 646 | #398 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,925 | 599 | #418 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,062 | 568 | #429 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,995 | 505 | #455 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,506 | 445 | #490 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,294 | 349 | #554 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,484 | 296 | #601 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,004 | 238 | #688 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,557 | 193 | #760 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,039 | 105 | #1,095 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,162 | 49 | #1,741 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,192 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,006 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,979 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,029 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,750 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,597 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,184 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,218 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,300 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,793 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,724 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,972 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,665 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,238 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,440 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,241 |
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).