Jakelyn
Jakelyn was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 366 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,536, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 2000, the peak
Jakelyn peaked in 2000, when 32 girls were given it, #3,914 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,536 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,304 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,428 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,830 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,850 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,253 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,021 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,476 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,475 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,017 | 12.2 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23 | #5,969 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,613 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,376 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,567 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,711 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,579 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,442 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,914 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,906 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,487 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,690 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,306 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,918 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,913 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,103 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,010 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 362 Americans named Jakelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Jakelyn (307 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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 Jakelyn?
Jakelyn is a less common spelling of Jackelyn: SSA has recorded 366 Jakelyn and 3,896 Jackelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 81,534 babies since 1880, Jakelyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 193 babies recorded by SSA was a Jakelyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jakelyn
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 Jakelyn and names like it
- Compare Jakelyn and JackelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakelyn peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jakelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.