Jaylan
Jaylan was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,658 among boys’ names; 5,539 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,450 Americans named Jaylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaylan?
#2,658 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaylan fell from #2,041 in 2015 to #2,658 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 28.7 per million.
369 babies in 2006, the peak
Jaylan peaked in 2006, when 369 babies were given it (321 boys, #693 among boys’ names). The 49 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 49 | #2,658 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 37 | #3,242 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 49 | #2,671 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,799 | 62 | #2,306 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,272 | 56 | #2,421 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,158 | 58 | #2,332 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,808 | 64 | #2,194 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,127 | 73 | #2,005 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,083 | 79 | #1,865 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,172 | 66 | #2,121 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,104 | 70 | #2,041 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,454 | 70 | #2,029 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,727 | 88 | #1,688 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,023 | 102 | #1,553 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,735 | 122 | #1,372 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,527 | 161 | #1,151 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,619 | 182 | #1,045 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,120 | 206 | #972 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,155 | 250 | #847 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,387 | 321 | #693 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,834 | 277 | #729 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,522 | 277 | #698 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,058 | 249 | #730 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,213 | 255 | #702 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,065 | 292 | #638 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,680 | 289 | #635 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,799 | 196 | #782 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,190 | 160 | #902 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,271 | 168 | #844 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,759 | 133 | #963 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,100 | 100 | #1,144 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,550 | 69 | #1,407 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,733 | 55 | #1,623 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,383 | 18 | #3,520 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,852 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,456 |
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 Jaylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,539 Americans recorded as Jaylan, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 49 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 Jaylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylan, and how old are they?
5,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,539 Americans ever recorded as Jaylan. The median Jaylan alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,493 people named Jaylan (812 women and girls, 3,681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 454 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 933 |
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 Jaylan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,082 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,745 | 0.9× |
Where Jaylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylan is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1989 it was given 4.2 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 Jaylan 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, Jaylan is the fifth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 2,062 babies (2.4%), again the fifth 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 Jaylan
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 Jaylan and names like it
- Compare Jaylan and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylan peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jaylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.