Jaelyn — #1569 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jaelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,101 babies named Jaelyn between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jaelyn currently holds the #1569 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 1,014 babies received it in a single year. Jaelyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,381 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaelyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 6,675 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jaelyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,636 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaelyn in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaelyn 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 14,101 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.