Jaelin
Jaelin was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,886 among boys’ names; 2,180 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Jaelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaelin?
#7,886 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaelin fell from #5,149 in 2015 to #7,886 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 5.9 per million.
150 babies in 2002, the peak
Jaelin peaked in 2002, when 150 babies were given it (74 boys, #1,621 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 10 | #7,886 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,176 | 9 | #8,600 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,669 | 13 | #6,682 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,288 | 10 | #7,989 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,226 | 15 | #5,867 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,685 | 8 | #9,046 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 12 | #6,942 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,905 | 8 | #9,137 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,996 | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,081 | 17 | #5,405 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,275 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,081 | 26 | #3,944 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,920 | 18 | #5,047 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,161 | 34 | #3,261 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,493 | 39 | #2,966 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,657 | 50 | #2,484 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,587 | 48 | #2,597 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,608 | 46 | #2,695 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,555 | 54 | #2,393 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,106 | 65 | #2,046 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,538 | 59 | #2,089 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,010 | 66 | #1,860 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,506 | 82 | #1,552 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,182 | 74 | #1,621 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,783 | 78 | #1,552 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,790 | 73 | #1,614 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,062 | 71 | #1,561 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,246 | 62 | #1,670 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,744 | 63 | #1,610 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,378 | 56 | #1,694 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,574 | 38 | #2,150 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,109 | 16 | #3,985 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,006 | 9 | #5,940 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,095 | under 5 |
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 Jaelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,180 Americans recorded as Jaelin, 42% are girls and 58% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Jaelin every year since 2003. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Jaelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaelin, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,180 Americans ever recorded as Jaelin. The median Jaelin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,752 people named Jaelin (795 women and girls, 957 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 279 |
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 Jaelin born?
The states with the most babies named Jaelin are California, New York and Texas, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Jaelin 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 131,080 babies since 1880, Jaelin is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,062 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Jaelin
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 Jaelin and names like it
- Compare Jaelin and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaelin peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jaelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.