Jaylan — #3246 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jaylan

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,665 babies named Jaylan between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jaylan currently holds the #3246 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 321 babies received it in a single year. Jaylan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 824 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaylan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,598 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jaylan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 424 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaylan in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaylan 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 4,665 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.