Jaelen
Jaelen was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,102 among boys’ names; 1,626 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Jaelen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaelen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaelen?
#5,102 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaelen fell from #4,019 in 2015 to #5,102 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 11.1 per million.
115 babies in 2001, the peak
Jaelen peaked in 2001, when 115 babies were given it (95 boys, #1,349 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 19 | #5,102 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 22 | #4,618 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 19 | #5,135 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 19 | #5,104 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 28 | #3,852 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 20 | #4,767 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,349 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,827 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 23 | #4,375 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,461 | 22 | #4,526 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 26 | #4,019 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 24 | #4,176 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 30 | #3,531 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 32 | #3,407 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 43 | #2,770 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,758 | 50 | #2,483 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,613 | 58 | #2,267 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,279 | 60 | #2,216 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,738 | 48 | #2,578 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,174 | 58 | #2,213 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,557 | 78 | #1,713 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,561 | 67 | #1,841 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,004 | 67 | #1,786 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,745 | 78 | #1,574 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,665 | 95 | #1,349 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,048 | 95 | #1,342 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,901 | 79 | #1,460 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,212 | 59 | #1,724 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,450 | 30 | #2,636 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,012 | 36 | #2,266 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,791 | 39 | #2,111 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,909 | 25 | #2,882 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 30 | #2,471 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 9 | #5,830 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jaelen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,626 Americans recorded as Jaelen, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaelen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaelen, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,626 Americans ever recorded as Jaelen. The median Jaelen alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,273 people named Jaelen (217 women and girls, 1,056 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,486 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 162 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaelen born?
The states with the most babies named Jaelen are California, New York and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 74 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 36 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaelen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 130,526 babies since 1880, Jaelen is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 2,071 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaelen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaelen and names like it
- Compare Jaelen and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaelen peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaelen since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jaelen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaelen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.