Jayleen
Jayleen was given to 218 girls in 2025, #1,098 among girls’ names; 13,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,100 Americans named Jayleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayleen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayleen is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylene.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayleen?
#1,098 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayleen fell from #425 in 2015 to #1,098 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.42 to 0.14 per 1,000.
802 babies in 2011, the peak
Jayleen peaked in 2011, when 802 girls were given it, #394 among girls’ names. The 218 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 218 | #1,098 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 265 | #981 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 356 | #790 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 488 | #611 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 541 | #565 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 543 | #549 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 546 | #562 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 613 | #506 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 662 | #471 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 722 | #445 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 750 | #425 | 0.42 |
| 2014 | 770 | #415 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 793 | #390 | 0.45 |
| 2012 | 764 | #409 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 802 | #394 | 0.46 |
| 2010 | 679 | #455 | 0.38 |
| 2009 | 552 | #554 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 498 | #614 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 373 | #774 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 320 | #840 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 257 | #962 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 254 | #949 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 177 | #1,204 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,318 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 157 | #1,254 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,605 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,584 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,658 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,290 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,642 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,403 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,298 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,063 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,254 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,343 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,487 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,909 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,191 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,823 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,678 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,693 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,819 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,928 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,138 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,708 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,959 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,402 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,247 Americans recorded as Jayleen, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 218 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 Jayleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayleen, and how old are they?
13,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,247 Americans ever recorded as Jayleen. The median Jayleen alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 8,148 people named Jayleen (7,978 women and girls, 170 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,884 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 43 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 296 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,240 |
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 Jayleen born?
The states with the most babies named Jayleen are California, Texas and Florida, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 81 | #410 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 46 | #670 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,280 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 10 | #652 | 1.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,926 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,317 | 1.0× |
| Nevada | 6 | #466 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,498 | 0.2× |
Where Jayleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayleen is most over-represented in California: since 1954 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 Jayleen 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 33,411 babies since 1880, Jayleen is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 218 of their 402 babies (54%), again the 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 Jayleen
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 Jayleen and names like it
- Compare Jayleen and JaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJayleen peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayleen since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jayleen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jayleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jayleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.