Jaylen — #325 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jaylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 39,984 babies named Jaylen between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jaylen currently holds the #325 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 2,236 babies received it in a single year. Jaylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,010 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaylen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 18,696 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jaylen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaylen in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaylen 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 39,984 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.