Jaylynn
Jaylynn is given to both girls and boys: 92 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,054 among girls’ names and #6,614 among boys’, #3,428 among all names counting both); 9,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,840 Americans named Jaylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaylynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaylynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Jay + -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaylynn?
#2,054 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaylynn fell from #722 in 2015 to #2,054 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.22 to 0.06 per 1,000.
668 babies in 2009, the peak
Jaylynn peaked in 2009, when 668 babies were given it (635 girls, #484 among girls’ names). The 105 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,054 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,005 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,912 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,551 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,509 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 250 | #1,032 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 250 | #1,034 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 330 | #854 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 394 | #722 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 423 | #673 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 449 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 489 | #594 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 532 | #549 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 603 | #496 | 0.34 |
| 2009 | 635 | #484 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 600 | #514 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 570 | #544 | 0.30 |
| 2006 | 451 | #640 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 413 | #673 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 342 | #763 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 313 | #789 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 265 | #866 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 216 | #992 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 178 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,263 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,525 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,868 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,186 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,952 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,128 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,506 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,516 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,383 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,023 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,795 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,015 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,591 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,102 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,008 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,472 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,023 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,939 Americans recorded as Jaylynn, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaylynn, and how old are they?
9,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,939 Americans ever recorded as Jaylynn. The median Jaylynn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 7,418 people named Jaylynn (7,035 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,099 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 359 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,180 |
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 Jaylynn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaylynn are California, Texas and Ohio, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,692 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,121 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,204 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,634 | 0.4× |
Where Jaylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaylynn is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1963 it was given 1.7 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 Jaylynn 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, Jaylynn is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 750 babies (14%), the fourth 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 Jaylynn
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 Jaylynn and names like it
- Compare Jaylynn and JaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaylynn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaylynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaylynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jaylynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaylynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.