Jlyn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jlyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Jlyn between 1996 and 2012, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jlyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Jlyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 110 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jlyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 132 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jlyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Jlyn in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jlyn 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 164 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.