Jaylin
Jaylin is given to both girls and boys: 117 girls and 111 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,742 among girls’ names and #1,548 among boys’, #2,033 among all names counting both); 19,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Jaylin every year since 2010.
An estimated 19,400 Americans named Jaylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylin is “a unisex given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylen and Jaylynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylin?
#1,548 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaylin fell from #1,117 in 2015 to #1,548 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 89.7 to 65.0 per million.
1,140 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaylin peaked in 2007, when 1,140 babies were given it (600 boys, #461 among boys’ names). The 228 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,742 | 111 | #1,548 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,626 | 106 | #1,615 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,384 | 136 | #1,372 |
| 2022 | 241 | #1,057 | 135 | #1,384 |
| 2021 | 257 | #997 | 115 | #1,533 |
| 2020 | 311 | #867 | 124 | #1,403 |
| 2019 | 198 | #1,189 | 150 | #1,254 |
| 2018 | 211 | #1,153 | 129 | #1,371 |
| 2017 | 238 | #1,072 | 144 | #1,268 |
| 2016 | 244 | #1,073 | 145 | #1,264 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 290 | #935 | 172 | #1,117 |
| 2014 | 291 | #926 | 198 | #1,025 |
| 2013 | 365 | #744 | 225 | #918 |
| 2012 | 368 | #755 | 291 | #779 |
| 2011 | 391 | #712 | 291 | #775 |
| 2010 | 480 | #614 | 366 | #658 |
| 2009 | 490 | #618 | 581 | #470 |
| 2008 | 524 | #596 | 525 | #517 |
| 2007 | 540 | #561 | 600 | #461 |
| 2006 | 459 | #627 | 618 | #440 |
| 2005 | 426 | #650 | 610 | #435 |
| 2004 | 412 | #665 | 633 | #411 |
| 2003 | 411 | #645 | 637 | #406 |
| 2002 | 297 | #793 | 675 | #387 |
| 2001 | 264 | #867 | 472 | #485 |
| 2000 | 253 | #871 | 512 | #464 |
| 1999 | 205 | #999 | 417 | #511 |
| 1998 | 172 | #1,121 | 326 | #588 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,490 | 250 | #658 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,542 | 250 | #661 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,866 | 183 | #790 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,271 | 145 | #905 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,685 | 85 | #1,227 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,747 | 28 | #2,562 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,215 | 9 | #5,704 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,515 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,393 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,993 | 5 | #7,473 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,694 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,590 | under 5 |
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 Jaylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 19,608 Americans recorded as Jaylin, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylin, and how old are they?
19,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 19,608 Americans ever recorded as Jaylin. The median Jaylin alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 14,485 people named Jaylin (6,804 women and girls, 7,681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,910 |
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 Jaylin born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylin are Texas, California and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #1,698 | 0.9× |
| California | 27 | #1,746 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 16 | #1,155 | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 7 | #445 | 1.8× |
| Missouri | 6 | #824 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #1,877 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,376 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jaylin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylin is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1982 it was given 1.8 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 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 Jaylin 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, Jaylin is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 228 of their 2,062 babies (11%), again the third 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 Jaylin
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 Jaylin and names like it
- Compare Jaylin and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylin peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylin since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaylin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.