Jaylani
Jaylani was given to 654 girls in 2025, #471 among girls’ names; 3,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,920 Americans named Jaylani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaylani?
#471 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylani rose from #1,825 in 2015 to #471 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.41 per 1,000.
661 babies in 2025, the peak
Jaylani peaked in 2025, when 661 babies were given it (654 girls, #471 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 486 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 654 | #471 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 486 | #616 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 497 | #600 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 376 | #763 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 354 | #799 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 246 | #1,022 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 177 | #1,297 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 214 | #1,142 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,904 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,825 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,613 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,578 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,154 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,739 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,533 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,121 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,412 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,029 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,285 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,234 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,349 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,939 Americans recorded as Jaylani, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 654 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylani, and how old are they?
3,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,939 Americans ever recorded as Jaylani. The median Jaylani alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 957 people named Jaylani (895 women and girls, 62 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 361 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
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 Jaylani born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylani are Texas, Florida and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 108 | #314 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 73 | #260 | 1.7× |
| California | 68 | #493 | 1.1× |
| New York | 40 | #433 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 38 | #281 | 2.2× |
| New Jersey | 37 | #223 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #421 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 23 | #310 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 22 | #518 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #620 | 0.6× |
Where Jaylani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylani is most over-represented in Illinois: since 2002 it was given 2.2 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 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 Jaylani 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 20,225 babies since 1880, Jaylani is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 661 of their 1,364 babies (48%), the 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 Jaylani
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 Jaylani and names like it
- Compare Jaylani and JayleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJaylani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylani since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jaylani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaylani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.