Jaylyn
Jaylyn is given to both girls and boys: 42 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,607 among girls’ names and #4,931 among boys’, #4,865 among all names counting both); 7,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,420 Americans named Jaylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylyn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylyn?
#3,607 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylyn fell from #1,407 in 2015 to #3,607 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 93.0 to 26.1 per million.
484 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaylyn peaked in 2007, when 484 babies were given it (376 girls, #771 among girls’ names). The 62 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,607 | 20 | #4,931 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,837 | 24 | #4,366 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,450 | 31 | #3,664 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,010 | 26 | #4,132 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,297 | 25 | #4,157 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,385 | 26 | #3,959 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,182 | 27 | #3,942 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,745 | 38 | #3,073 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,728 | 33 | #3,411 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,442 | 28 | #3,829 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 166 | #1,407 | 28 | #3,819 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,395 | 37 | #3,065 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,304 | 56 | #2,292 |
| 2012 | 251 | #1,009 | 49 | #2,535 |
| 2011 | 263 | #978 | 50 | #2,485 |
| 2010 | 310 | #862 | 83 | #1,785 |
| 2009 | 326 | #855 | 118 | #1,427 |
| 2008 | 356 | #809 | 88 | #1,726 |
| 2007 | 376 | #771 | 108 | #1,484 |
| 2006 | 345 | #793 | 106 | #1,457 |
| 2005 | 278 | #903 | 90 | #1,560 |
| 2004 | 265 | #914 | 90 | #1,493 |
| 2003 | 246 | #952 | 82 | #1,553 |
| 2002 | 229 | #967 | 74 | #1,622 |
| 2001 | 179 | #1,162 | 76 | #1,577 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,160 | 87 | #1,419 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,262 | 51 | #1,911 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,558 | 70 | #1,537 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,934 | 41 | #2,145 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,950 | 47 | #1,915 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,956 | 41 | #2,037 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,031 | 21 | #3,264 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,177 | 26 | #2,739 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,006 | 12 | #4,680 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,216 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,776 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,307 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,426 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,295 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,816 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,855 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,014 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,571 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,549 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,661 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,384 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,959 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,625 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,629 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,913 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,022 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,933 | 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 Jaylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,513 Americans recorded as Jaylyn, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylyn, and how old are they?
7,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,513 Americans ever recorded as Jaylyn. The median Jaylyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,015 people named Jaylyn (4,661 women and girls, 1,354 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 506 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
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 Jaylyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,759 | 0.9× |
| California | 7 | #2,619 | 0.7× |
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 Jaylyn 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 73,475 babies since 1880, Jaylyn is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 750 babies (8.3%), the sixth 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 Jaylyn
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 Jaylyn and names like it
- Compare Jaylyn and JaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylyn peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaylyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.