Jaelyn

#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to girls 91.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
2008 · 1,014 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
14,201
since 1963

Jaelyn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002peak #332, 2008peak #1,581, 2009girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,96298#5,04519
2024#1,559136#3,60531
2023#1,310173#3,11739
2022#1,183203#4,08926
2021#1,075233#2,86243
2020#1,003254#3,02538
2019#968270#3,89927
2018#827328#3,10637
2017#708406#3,07138
2016#609493#3,44132
2015#601490#2,91940
2014#641446#3,15435
2013#579496#2,71543
2012#471651#2,67845
2011#417760#2,03566
2010#368865#1,94072
2009#348942#1,581102
2008#3321,014#1,89976
2007#360905#2,11764
2006#442722#2,12661
2005#500606#2,29751
2004#505576#2,10256
2003#535528#2,03156
2002#538510#2,42841
2001#562460#2,48939
2000#616412#2,04949
1999#714317#2,23141
1998#899234#1,71959
1997#1,139164#2,90326
1996#1,318129#4,39614
1995#1,492106#4,50813
1994#1,84177#5,10911
1993#2,19560#5,36010
1992#3,77328
1991#6,25314
1990#7,88010
1989#9,6817
1988#7,11110
1987#8,7787
1986#7,7498
1985#5,67812
1984#9,1446
1983#6,21210
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five girls were named Jaelyn! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Jaelyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 403 spots since 2024 (#1,559#1,962)
  • 959 spots since 2020 (#1,003#1,962)
  • 1,361 spots since 2015 (#601#1,962)
  • Biggest jump: 240 spots in 1998 (#1,139#899)
  • Biggest drop: 141 spots in 2019 (#827#968)
Rise & fade · girls
45 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 2008 at #332 (1,014 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 22 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1998–2019
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,865
  • Highest: 1 in 1,865 girls born in 2008 were named Jaelyn (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 47.0% of all girls named Jaelyn (6,675) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#6,592 (1963)#6,592
1970s14#5,984 (1975)#7,380
1980s66#5,678 (1985)#7,933
1990s1,139#714 (1999)#2,750
2000s6,675#332 (2008)#474
2010s5,205#368 (2010)#619
2020s1,097#1,003 (2020)#1,349

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jaelyn in 2002

girls
#538
510 births · 1 in 3,523 girls
boys
#2,428
41 births · 1 in 47,354 boys

Top girls' names in 2002

  1. #1Emily24,470
  2. #2Madison21,774
  3. #3Hannah18,828
  4. #4Emma16,558
  5. #5Alexis15,636
  6. #6Ashley15,344
  7. #7Abigail15,303
  8. #8Sarah14,779
  9. #9Samantha14,671
  10. #10Olivia14,631
  11. #538Jaelyn510

Top boys' names in 2002

  1. #1Jacob30,586
  2. #2Michael28,258
  3. #3Joshua25,998
  4. #4Matthew25,154
  5. #5Ethan22,113
  6. #6Andrew22,037
  7. #7Joseph21,920
  8. #8Christopher21,689
  9. #9Nicholas21,390
  10. #10Daniel21,352
  11. #2,428Jaelyn41
More about 2002

girls

1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 3,523 of them was named Jaelyn, which outranked 97.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jaelyn
  1. #535Maia512
  2. #535Shakira512
  3. #537Rhiannon511
  4. #538Jaelyn510
  5. #538Kelsie510
  6. #538Marlene510
  7. #541Barbara509
  8. #542Cassie508
  9. #543Marilyn507

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. 1,168Cadence#2,126#958
  2. 949Lisbeth#1,573#624
  3. 710Ashanti#825#115
  4. 464Elle#1,076#612
  5. 412Nyla#865#453
Fallers
  1. 1,141Citlalli#609#1,750
  2. 748Nallely#772#1,520
  3. 617Dafne#967#1,584
  4. 582Beyonce#700#1,282
  5. 540Mikaila#928#1,468

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 47,354 of them was named Jaelyn, which outranked 80.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jaelyn
  1. #2,403Trinton42
  2. #2,403Tymir42
  3. #2,403Tyshon42
  4. #2,428Jaelyn41
  5. #2,428Akil41
  6. #2,428Amiri41
  7. #2,428Arlo41
  8. #2,470Adham40
  9. #2,470Adil40
  10. #2,470Aleksandar40

Tied with 41 names at #2,428; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. 10,021Omarion#10,556#535
  2. 3,583Amarion#4,302#719
  3. 3,370Yahir#3,974#604
  4. 1,466Gael#2,185#719
  5. 1,287Lisandro#2,185#898
Fallers
  1. 546Daunte#968#1,514
  2. 405Imanol#921#1,326
  3. 376Shemar#594#970
  4. 347Jade#958#1,305
  5. 311Jalon#873#1,184

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2002