Jailene
Jailene was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,625 among girls’ names; 3,148 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,110 Americans named Jailene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jailene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jailene?
#5,625 among girls’ names, 2025
Jailene fell from #3,875 in 2015 to #5,625 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 13.7 per million.
513 babies in 1999, the peak
Jailene peaked in 1999, when 513 girls were given it, #506 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,625 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,071 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,401 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,671 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,835 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,958 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,480 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,492 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,876 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,881 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,875 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,045 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,282 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,553 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,191 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,849 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,264 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,609 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,657 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,238 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,024 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,245 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,507 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,808 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,305 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,033 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 513 | #506 | 0.29 |
| 1998 | 460 | #544 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 397 | #586 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 203 | #945 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,191 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,311 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jailene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jailene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jailene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jailene, and how old are they?
3,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,148 Americans ever recorded as Jailene. The median Jailene alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,469 people named Jailene (2,462 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,931 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 | 307 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 444 |
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 Jailene born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,610 | 1.4× |
Where Jailene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jailene is most over-represented in New York: since 1992 it was given 2.2 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 Jailene 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 18,952 babies since 1880, Jailene is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 395 babies (5.6%), the fourth 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 Jailene
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 Jailene and names like it
- Compare Jailene and JayleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJailene peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jailene since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jailene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jailene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.