Jalon
Jalon was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,774 among boys’ names; 2,542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Jalon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalon?
#4,774 among boys’ names, 2025
Jalon fell from #3,183 in 2015 to #4,774 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 12.3 per million.
183 babies in 2001, the peak
Jalon peaked in 2001, when 183 boys were given it, #873 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,774 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,999 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,955 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,490 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,873 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,929 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,238 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,521 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,270 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,531 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,183 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,905 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,915 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,022 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,870 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,652 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,633 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,031 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,987 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 98 | #1,529 | 47.7 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,575 | 44.1 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,507 | 44.8 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,114 | 69.9 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,186 | 60.8 |
| 2001 | 183 | #873 | 94.2 |
| 2000 | 159 | #958 | 81.0 |
| 1999 | 154 | #944 | 80.2 |
| 1998 | 155 | #917 | 81.1 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,118 | 59.9 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,143 | 54.9 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,265 | 44.6 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,344 | 38.8 |
| 1993 | 67 | #1,421 | 34.2 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,141 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,042 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,678 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,698 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,419 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,074 | 5.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,969 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,500 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,068 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,707 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,328 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,441 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,491 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,810 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,098 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,040 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,542 Americans recorded as Jalon, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Jalon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalon, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,542 Americans ever recorded as Jalon. The median Jalon alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,042 people named Jalon (119 women and girls, 1,923 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 482 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
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 Jalon born?
The states with the most babies named Jalon are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 240 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 140 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 85 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Louisiana | 82 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 78 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 77 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 72 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jalon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalon is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1970 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 boys’ 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 Jalon 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 131,080 babies since 1880, Jalon is the sixth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,062 babies (1.0%), again the sixth most given.
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 Jalon
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 Jalon and names like it
- Compare Jalon and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalon peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalon since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jalon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.