Jaylee
Jaylee was given to 171 girls in 2025, #1,302 among girls’ names; 8,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,530 Americans named Jaylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylee is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Jay + Lee. Compare Jaylynn, Kaylee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylee?
#1,302 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylee fell from #746 in 2015 to #1,302 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.11 per 1,000.
513 babies in 2012, the peak
Jaylee peaked in 2012, when 513 babies were given it (505 girls, #581 among girls’ names). The 171 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,302 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,181 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 247 | #1,036 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 265 | #981 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 282 | #919 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 308 | #870 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 276 | #959 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 321 | #848 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 359 | #793 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 378 | #746 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 403 | #701 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 436 | #653 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 505 | #581 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 491 | #589 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 481 | #613 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 493 | #613 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 437 | #692 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 352 | #817 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 332 | #820 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 307 | #831 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 261 | #925 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 183 | #1,135 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,355 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,843 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,919 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,472 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,458 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,317 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,134 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,591 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,076 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,437 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,615 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,958 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,357 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,380 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,044 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,601 Americans recorded as Jaylee, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 171 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Jaylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylee, and how old are they?
8,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,601 Americans ever recorded as Jaylee. The median Jaylee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 6,325 people named Jaylee (6,166 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,257 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 | 180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,850 |
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 Jaylee born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylee are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,240 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,369 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 10 | #915 | 0.8× |
| California | 9 | #2,181 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 9 | #509 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,130 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,096 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,735 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 7 | #859 | 1.4× |
| Utah | 5 | #754 | 2.1× |
Where Jaylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1981 it was given 2.9 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 Jaylee 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 70,505 babies since 1880, Jaylee is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 171 of their 1,010 babies (17%), the second 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 Jaylee
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 Jaylee and names like it
- Compare Jaylee and JaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaylee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylee since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jaylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.