Japleen — girls' name
89 babies named Japleen in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
61% of everyone ever named Japleen was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Japleen in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Japleen
The Social Security Administration has registered 89 babies named Japleen between 2005 and 2021, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Japleen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Japleen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Japleen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Japleen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Japleen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 89 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Japleen at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Japleen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2005
- Peak year (2009)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
89 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 9 births in a single year.
Japleen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 54 births that decade — 61% of Japleen's all-time total
Japleen decade highlights
- Peak decade 54 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Japleen's strongest decade
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Japleen by state
Where Japleen concentrates geographically — total births since 2005
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 12 | 13.5% |
12 of 89 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 13.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 13.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2005–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.