Jailyn
Jailyn is given to both girls and boys: 72 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,469 among girls’ names and #6,961 among boys’, #3,987 among all names counting both); 5,886 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,830 Americans named Jailyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jailyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jailyn?
#2,469 among girls’ names, 2025
Jailyn fell from #1,556 in 2015 to #2,469 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 79.0 to 44.8 per million.
319 babies in 2007, the peak
Jailyn peaked in 2007, when 319 babies were given it (278 girls, #967 among girls’ names). The 84 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,469 | 12 | #6,961 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,934 | 9 | #8,607 |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,702 | 11 | #7,465 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,787 | 8 | #9,331 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,701 | 14 | #6,155 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,596 | 16 | #5,550 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,993 | 11 | #7,352 |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,019 | 21 | #4,655 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,983 | 22 | #4,518 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,624 | 14 | #6,161 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,556 | 11 | #7,258 |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,779 | 24 | #4,177 |
| 2013 | 128 | #1,664 | 17 | #5,261 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,420 | 31 | #3,477 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,405 | 35 | #3,200 |
| 2010 | 193 | #1,246 | 36 | #3,146 |
| 2009 | 219 | #1,156 | 36 | #3,188 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,024 | 37 | #3,127 |
| 2007 | 278 | #967 | 41 | #2,888 |
| 2006 | 251 | #1,021 | 59 | #2,191 |
| 2005 | 265 | #936 | 36 | #2,919 |
| 2004 | 256 | #938 | 50 | #2,290 |
| 2003 | 254 | #925 | 37 | #2,693 |
| 2002 | 258 | #879 | 35 | #2,713 |
| 2001 | 226 | #962 | 38 | #2,539 |
| 2000 | 215 | #985 | 30 | #2,939 |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,174 | 20 | #3,748 |
| 1998 | 138 | #1,295 | 23 | #3,329 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,709 | 13 | #4,772 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,108 | 11 | #5,323 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,311 | 9 | #6,114 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,804 | 5 | #9,397 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,525 | 9 | #5,943 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,428 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,107 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,151 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,001 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,123 | under 5 |
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 Jailyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,886 Americans recorded as Jailyn, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jailyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jailyn, and how old are they?
5,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,886 Americans ever recorded as Jailyn. The median Jailyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,249 people named Jailyn (3,703 women and girls, 546 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 266 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Jailyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,494 | 0.9× |
| California | 13 | #1,690 | 0.6× |
Where Jailyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jailyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1982 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 Jailyn 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, Jailyn is the sixth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 574 babies (15%), 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 Jailyn
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 Jailyn and names like it
- Compare Jailyn and JaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJailyn peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jailyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jailyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jailyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.