Jaylen
Jaylen was given to 907 boys in 2025, #361 among boys’ names; 45,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 45,400 Americans named Jaylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylen is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jalen.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylen?
#361 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaylen fell from #343 in 2015 to #361 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.52 to 0.53 per 1,000.
2,546 babies in 2009, the peak
Jaylen peaked in 2009, when 2,546 babies were given it (2,236 boys, #175 among boys’ names). The 942 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,108 | 907 | #361 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,137 | 1,066 | #324 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,476 | 1,245 | #270 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,355 | 1,053 | #320 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,079 | 1,045 | #317 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,915 | 1,037 | #319 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,792 | 998 | #336 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,559 | 983 | #340 |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,411 | 995 | #343 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,428 | 901 | #369 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 148 | #1,524 | 1,004 | #343 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,443 | 1,097 | #317 |
| 2013 | 185 | #1,278 | 1,200 | #291 |
| 2012 | 229 | #1,085 | 1,434 | #256 |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,063 | 1,727 | #206 |
| 2010 | 289 | #905 | 1,812 | #203 |
| 2009 | 310 | #884 | 2,236 | #175 |
| 2008 | 324 | #859 | 2,156 | #185 |
| 2007 | 321 | #871 | 2,085 | #193 |
| 2006 | 247 | #1,039 | 2,077 | #191 |
| 2005 | 218 | #1,094 | 1,999 | #194 |
| 2004 | 250 | #960 | 1,791 | #205 |
| 2003 | 188 | #1,151 | 1,814 | #203 |
| 2002 | 168 | #1,205 | 1,598 | #215 |
| 2001 | 163 | #1,235 | 1,426 | #238 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,311 | 1,514 | #224 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,435 | 980 | #293 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,819 | 758 | #349 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,402 | 451 | #478 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,185 | 426 | #495 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,430 | 385 | #520 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,321 | 357 | #542 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,176 | 238 | #667 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,810 | 101 | #1,091 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,115 | 8 | #6,184 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jaylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 45,951 Americans recorded as Jaylen, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 girls and 907 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylen, and how old are they?
45,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 45,951 Americans ever recorded as Jaylen. The median Jaylen alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 33,253 people named Jaylen (4,406 women and girls, 28,847 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 1,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 28,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,900 |
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 Jaylen born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylen are Florida, California and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 99 | #216 | 1.4× |
| California | 74 | #434 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 70 | #481 | 0.8× |
| New York | 65 | #288 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 41 | #304 | 2.0× |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #163 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #298 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 37 | #321 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 33 | #265 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 33 | #275 | 0.8× |
Where Jaylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylen is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1991 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Jaylen 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 131,080 babies since 1880, Jaylen is the most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 942 of their 2,062 babies (46%), 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 Jaylen
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 Jaylen and names like it
- Compare Jaylen and JalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylen peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylen since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jaylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.