Jaylon
Jaylon was given to 88 boys in 2025, #1,816 among boys’ names; 10,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,300 Americans named Jaylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaylon?
#1,816 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaylon fell from #1,135 in 2015 to #1,816 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 87.1 to 51.5 per million.
661 babies in 2002, the peak
Jaylon peaked in 2002, when 661 babies were given it (646 boys, #398 among boys’ names). The 88 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #1,816 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 89 | #1,828 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,615 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,462 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,283 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,241 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,336 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,269 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,205 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 167 | #1,135 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,090 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 200 | #996 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 223 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 303 | #750 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 393 | #638 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 417 | #602 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 458 | #562 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 548 | #482 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 528 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 613 | #427 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 601 | #427 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 646 | #398 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 599 | #418 | 0.31 |
| 2000 | 568 | #429 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 505 | #455 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 445 | #490 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 349 | #554 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 296 | #601 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 238 | #685 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 193 | #758 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,179 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,298 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,791 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,239 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,442 Americans recorded as Jaylon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 88 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylon, and how old are they?
10,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,442 Americans ever recorded as Jaylon. The median Jaylon alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 8,119 people named Jaylon (287 women and girls, 7,832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,770 |
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 Jaylon born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylon are Texas, Georgia and Illinois, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,699 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,033 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,195 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #832 | 4.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,363 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,180 | 0.6× |
Where Jaylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylon is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1976 it was given 6.4 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 Jaylon 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, Jaylon is the fourth most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 2,062 babies (4.3%), again the fourth 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 Jaylon
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 Jaylon and names like it
- Compare Jaylon and JaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylon peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylon since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jaylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.