Meaning not yet researched.
Jaylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #771 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #771 in 2007; #3,608 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Jaylyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,608 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #771.
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Jaylyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #771 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 376 (2007).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Jaylyn, making it the 3,608th most common girls’ name of the year, down 771 places from #2,837 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 59 girls named Jaylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #771, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 376. For comparison, it was #1,407 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Jaylyn, making it the 4,932nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 563 places from #4,369 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 boys named Jaylyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,423, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 118, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,820 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaylyn in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 8 babies. In all, 7,513 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,692 babies named Jaylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 842 US girls were named Jaylyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls 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).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Jaylyn in the open dataset we use.
Jaylyn is listed as a nickname for Jalen.
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 | 42 | #3,608 | 20 | #4,932 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,837 | 24 | #4,369 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,450 | 31 | #3,666 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,010 | 26 | #4,136 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,297 | 25 | #4,161 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,385 | 26 | #3,962 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,182 | 27 | #3,945 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,745 | 38 | #3,075 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,728 | 33 | #3,414 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,442 | 28 | #3,830 |
| 2015 | 166 | #1,407 | 28 | #3,820 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,395 | 37 | #3,067 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,304 | 56 | #2,293 |
| 2012 | 251 | #1,009 | 49 | #2,536 |
| 2011 | 263 | #978 | 50 | #2,486 |
| 2010 | 310 | #862 | 83 | #1,786 |
| 2009 | 326 | #855 | 118 | #1,427 |
| 2008 | 356 | #809 | 88 | #1,726 |
| 2007 | 376 | #771 | 108 | #1,484 |
| 2006 | 345 | #793 | 106 | #1,457 |
| 2005 | 278 | #903 | 90 | #1,562 |
| 2004 | 265 | #914 | 90 | #1,495 |
| 2003 | 246 | #952 | 82 | #1,556 |
| 2002 | 229 | #968 | 74 | #1,625 |
| 2001 | 179 | #1,163 | 76 | #1,581 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,162 | 87 | #1,423 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,264 | 51 | #1,914 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,560 | 70 | #1,540 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,937 | 41 | #2,148 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,952 | 47 | #1,919 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,961 | 41 | #2,042 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,036 | 21 | #3,270 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,182 | 26 | #2,745 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,011 | 12 | #4,687 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,223 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,782 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,313 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,300 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,858 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,016 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,573 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,551 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,662 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,386 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,961 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,627 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,631 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,915 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,023 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,934 | — | — |
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).