Jaylene
Jaylene was given to 162 girls in 2025, #1,362 among girls’ names; 10,208 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,000 Americans named Jaylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylene is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Jay + -lene ending as in Charlene, Jolene, etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylene?
#1,362 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylene fell from #711 in 2015 to #1,362 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.22 to 0.10 per 1,000.
483 babies in 2008, the peak
Jaylene peaked in 2008, when 483 girls were given it, #639 among girls’ names. The 162 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,207 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,192 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,213 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 266 | #976 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 241 | #1,044 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 251 | #1,026 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 308 | #877 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 338 | #808 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 384 | #742 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 401 | #711 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 355 | #791 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 383 | #721 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 406 | #693 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 448 | #636 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 449 | #653 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 453 | #653 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 483 | #639 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 390 | #748 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 290 | #911 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 328 | #794 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 335 | #771 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 281 | #860 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 236 | #946 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 203 | #1,054 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 189 | #1,090 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 229 | #921 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 184 | #1,062 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,224 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,131 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,596 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,391 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,884 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,237 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,757 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,735 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,691 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,740 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,207 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,628 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,156 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,429 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,146 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,531 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,776 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,995 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,373 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,073 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,609 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,192 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,653 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,590 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,804 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,862 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,937 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaylene has been given almost only to girls: 75 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylene, and how old are they?
10,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,208 Americans ever recorded as Jaylene. The median Jaylene alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,977 people named Jaylene (6,880 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 291 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 343 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 636 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,660 |
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 Jaylene born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylene are California, Texas and New York, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 67 | #500 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,078 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,454 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,318 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 6 | #962 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,299 | 0.8× |
Where Jaylene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylene is most over-represented in California: since 1938 it was given 2.8 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 Jaylene 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 22,477 babies since 1880, Jaylene is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 974 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 Jaylene
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 Jaylene and names like it
- Compare Jaylene and JaylaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylene peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylene since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylene: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jaylene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.