Jailen
Jailen was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,519 among boys’ names; 1,697 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Jailen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jailen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jailen?
#8,519 among boys’ names, 2025
Jailen fell from #5,378 in 2015 to #8,519 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 5.3 per million.
111 babies in 2003, the peak
Jailen peaked in 2003, when 111 babies were given it (94 boys, #1,412 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,519 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 21 | #4,766 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 17 | #5,547 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 28 | #3,930 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 23 | #4,420 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 22 | #4,470 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 28 | #3,839 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,652 | 24 | #4,280 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,909 | 19 | #5,001 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,090 | 34 | #3,320 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,283 | 17 | #5,378 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 29 | #3,647 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,371 | 36 | #3,085 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,089 | 51 | #2,461 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,875 | 51 | #2,453 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,644 | 65 | #2,076 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,854 | 56 | #2,332 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,538 | 72 | #1,974 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,208 | 80 | #1,820 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,016 | 79 | #1,759 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,527 | 68 | #1,872 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,206 | 92 | #1,476 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,704 | 94 | #1,412 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,540 | 72 | #1,649 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,906 | 56 | #1,939 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,452 | 74 | #1,588 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,295 | 41 | #2,242 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,278 | 42 | #2,172 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,606 | 23 | #3,201 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,370 | 27 | #2,777 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,970 | 21 | #3,233 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,268 | 14 | #4,392 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,550 |
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 Jailen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,697 Americans recorded as Jailen, 18% are girls and 82% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Jailen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jailen, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,697 Americans ever recorded as Jailen. The median Jailen alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,310 people named Jailen (303 women and girls, 1,007 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,565 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 89 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 337 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jailen?
Jailen is a less common spelling of Jaylen: SSA has recorded 1,697 Jailen and 45,951 Jaylen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 130,597 babies since 1880, Jailen is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,061 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 Jailen
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 Jailen and names like it
- Compare Jailen and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJailen peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jailen since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jailen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jailen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.