Jayln — boys' name
425 babies named Jayln in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Jayln was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Jayln in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jayln
The Social Security Administration has registered 425 babies named Jayln between 1993 and 2020, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jayln currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Jayln is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 232 additional births since 1993.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jayln performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 247 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jayln shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jayln in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jayln 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 425 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.
Jayln at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jayln popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1993
- Peak year (2004)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
425 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 37 births in a single year.
Jayln popularity over time — girls
232 total births recorded since 1993 (Jayln as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Jayln accounts for 35% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jayln by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 247 births that decade — 58% of Jayln's all-time total
Jayln decade highlights
- Peak decade 247 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jayln's strongest decade
247 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Jayln by state
Where Jayln concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 10 | 2.4% |
10 of 425 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.