Jaelen — #4636 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jaelen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,390 babies named Jaelen between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jaelen currently holds the #4636 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 95 babies received it in a single year. Jaelen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 217 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaelen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 704 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jaelen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaelen in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaelen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,390 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.