Jalene
Jalene was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,227 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Jalene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,283, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 2004, the peak
Jalene peaked in 2004, when 45 girls were given it, #3,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,283 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,117 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,527 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,847 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,478 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,744 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,385 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,559 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,257 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,382 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | #5,860 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,135 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,657 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,860 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,615 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,298 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,350 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,488 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,619 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,050 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,012 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,127 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,543 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,284 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,307 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,396 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,324 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,504 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,204 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,876 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,591 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,051 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,415 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,539 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,784 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,520 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,550 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,755 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,585 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,068 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,815 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,363 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,336 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,293 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,721 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,137 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,143 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,450 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,901 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,254 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,117 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,371 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,680 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,418 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,031 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,819 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,196 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,877 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,084 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,677 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,010 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,512 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,621 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,787 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,614 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,532 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,939 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,995 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,155 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,556 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,970 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,412 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,330 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,661 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,239 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,984 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,227 Americans recorded as Jalene, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jalene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalene, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,227 Americans ever recorded as Jalene. The median Jalene alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Jalene (1,071 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 149 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 192 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 267 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Jalene born?
The states with the most babies named Jalene are California, New York and Texas, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Jalene 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 20,858 babies since 1880, Jalene is the fourth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 535 babies recorded by SSA was a Jalene (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 Jalene
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 Jalene and names like it
- Compare Jalene and JayleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalene peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalene since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Jalene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.