Jalyn
Jalyn is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,437 among girls’ names and #7,375 among boys’, #10,423 among all names counting both); 6,622 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,520 Americans named Jalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalyn?
#10,437 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalyn fell from #3,623 in 2015 to #10,437 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 5.6 per million.
463 babies in 2003, the peak
Jalyn peaked in 2003, when 463 babies were given it (355 girls, #721 among girls’ names). The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,437 | 11 | #7,375 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,616 | 16 | #5,755 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,264 | 24 | #4,389 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,786 | 20 | #4,913 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,073 | 12 | #6,858 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,546 | 15 | #5,815 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,358 | 31 | #3,595 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,704 | 22 | #4,522 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,099 | 23 | #4,376 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,908 | 14 | #6,163 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,623 | 20 | #4,787 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,722 | 28 | #3,726 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,315 | 24 | #4,115 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,363 | 32 | #3,411 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,919 | 51 | #2,454 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,558 | 61 | #2,180 |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,578 | 60 | #2,209 |
| 2008 | 206 | #1,230 | 66 | #2,097 |
| 2007 | 225 | #1,143 | 83 | #1,776 |
| 2006 | 279 | #939 | 98 | #1,530 |
| 2005 | 277 | #906 | 108 | #1,384 |
| 2004 | 307 | #819 | 99 | #1,427 |
| 2003 | 355 | #721 | 108 | #1,298 |
| 2002 | 283 | #826 | 105 | #1,287 |
| 2001 | 316 | #758 | 122 | #1,136 |
| 2000 | 343 | #688 | 113 | #1,201 |
| 1999 | 233 | #905 | 81 | #1,438 |
| 1998 | 197 | #1,011 | 66 | #1,587 |
| 1997 | 140 | #1,265 | 62 | #1,631 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,298 | 74 | #1,415 |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,293 | 56 | #1,631 |
| 1994 | 127 | #1,330 | 44 | #1,904 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,437 | 35 | #2,227 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,487 | 11 | #5,019 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,254 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,929 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,689 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,416 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,712 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,272 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,711 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,009 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,363 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,673 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,683 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,481 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,700 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,315 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,845 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,929 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,908 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,875 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,407 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,679 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,622 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,304 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,374 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,963 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,210 | 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 Jalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,622 Americans recorded as Jalyn, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalyn, and how old are they?
6,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,622 Americans ever recorded as Jalyn. The median Jalyn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 19 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,644 people named Jalyn (4,296 women and girls, 1,348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 894 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 648 |
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 Jalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jalyn are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 518 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 297 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 279 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 278 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 271 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 230 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 230 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 200 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 174 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 166 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Jalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalyn is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1955 it was given 1.9 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 Jalyn 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, Jalyn is the fifth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 574 babies (3.5%), the eighth 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 Jalyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Haile | 1,073 |
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 Jalyn and names like it
- Compare Jalyn and JaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalyn peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.