Jailen — #4790 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jailen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,389 babies named Jailen between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jailen currently holds the #4790 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Jailen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 299 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jailen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 743 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jailen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Jailen in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jailen 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 1,389 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.