Jailynn
Jailynn was given to 42 girls in 2025, #3,605 among girls’ names; 2,353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Jailynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jailynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jailynn?
#3,605 among girls’ names, 2025
Jailynn fell from #2,244 in 2015 to #3,605 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.1 to 26.1 per million.
157 babies in 2009, the peak
Jailynn peaked in 2009, when 157 babies were given it (149 girls, #1,522 among girls’ names). The 42 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,605 | 26.1 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,669 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,488 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,733 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,765 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,200 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,062 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,076 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,493 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,119 | 51.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,244 | 47.1 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,962 | 57.1 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,912 | 59.8 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,891 | 60.2 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,845 | 62.0 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,983 | 56.8 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,522 | 81.1 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,610 | 74.6 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,485 | 81.1 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,777 | 61.5 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,037 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,076 | 47.9 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,991 | 49.8 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,428 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,748 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,463 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,757 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,442 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,745 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,173 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,220 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,002 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,929 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jailynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,353 Americans recorded as Jailynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 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 Jailynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jailynn, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,353 Americans ever recorded as Jailynn. The median Jailynn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,656 people named Jailynn (1,588 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 41 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 815 |
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 Jailynn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,519 | 1.0× |
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 Jailynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jailynn?
Jailynn is a less common spelling of Jaylynn: SSA has recorded 2,353 Jailynn and 9,939 Jaylynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 62,581 babies since 1880, Jailynn is the eighth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 574 babies (7.3%), the sixth 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 Jailynn
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 Jailynn and names like it
- Compare Jailynn and JaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJailynn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jailynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jailynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jailynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.