Jaelyn
Jaelyn is given to both girls and boys: 98 girls and 19 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,966 among girls’ names and #5,103 among boys’, #3,189 among all names counting both); 15,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,400 Americans named Jaelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaelyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaelyn?
#1,966 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaelyn fell from #602 in 2015 to #1,966 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.27 to 0.06 per 1,000.
1,090 babies in 2008, the peak
Jaelyn peaked in 2008, when 1,090 babies were given it (1,014 girls, #332 among girls’ names). The 117 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,966 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,311 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,076 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 254 | #1,003 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 270 | #970 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 328 | #828 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 406 | #708 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 493 | #609 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 490 | #602 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 446 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 496 | #579 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 651 | #471 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 760 | #417 | 0.43 |
| 2010 | 865 | #369 | 0.49 |
| 2009 | 942 | #348 | 0.51 |
| 2008 | 1,014 | #332 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 905 | #360 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 722 | #442 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 606 | #501 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 576 | #505 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 528 | #535 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 510 | #538 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 460 | #563 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 412 | #617 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 317 | #713 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 234 | #900 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 164 | #1,138 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 129 | #1,319 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,806 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,362 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,106 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,326 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,386 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,527 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,136 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,003 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,601 Americans recorded as Jaelyn, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaelyn, and how old are they?
15,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,601 Americans ever recorded as Jaelyn. The median Jaelyn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 12,157 people named Jaelyn (11,222 women and girls, 935 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,264 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 526 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,450 |
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 Jaelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaelyn are California, Texas and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,883 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,116 | 1.0× |
| New York | 8 | #1,581 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,173 | 0.7× |
Where Jaelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaelyn is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1963 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Jaelyn 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 62,581 babies since 1880, Jaelyn is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 574 babies (20%), the second 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 Jaelyn
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 Jaelyn and names like it
- Compare Jaelyn and JaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaelyn peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaelyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaelyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jaelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.