Jaelynn
Jaelynn was given to 121 girls in 2025, #1,696 among girls’ names; 9,508 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,430 Americans named Jaelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaelynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Spelling variant of Jaylynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaelynn?
#1,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaelynn fell from #597 in 2015 to #1,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.28 to 0.08 per 1,000.
605 babies in 2010, the peak
Jaelynn peaked in 2010, when 605 babies were given it (593 girls, #503 among girls’ names). The 121 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,696 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,312 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 223 | #1,112 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 255 | #1,004 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 259 | #986 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 286 | #927 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 321 | #846 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 361 | #768 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 444 | #660 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 498 | #597 | 0.28 |
| 2014 | 491 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 476 | #598 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 543 | #547 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 582 | #505 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 593 | #503 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 557 | #543 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 591 | #521 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 505 | #592 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 344 | #794 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 293 | #863 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 225 | #1,035 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 209 | #1,067 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,167 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 185 | #1,131 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 111 | #1,530 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,129 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,255 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,038 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,471 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,190 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,800 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,599 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,648 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,508 Americans recorded as Jaelynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 121 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Jaelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaelynn, and how old are they?
9,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,508 Americans ever recorded as Jaelynn. The median Jaelynn alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 6,684 people named Jaelynn (6,573 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,308 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 156 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,090 |
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 Jaelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaelynn are Texas, California and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,661 | 1.3× |
| California | 13 | #1,689 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,478 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,160 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #1,918 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,343 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,556 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,131 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #985 | 0.8× |
Where Jaelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaelynn is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1984 it was given 1.7 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 Jaelynn 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, Jaelynn is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 574 babies (21%), the 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 Jaelynn
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 Jaelynn and names like it
- Compare Jaelynn and JaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaelynn peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaelynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaelynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jaelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.