Jalon

Last seen for girls in 2009 at #15,242 · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2001 · 183 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,468
since 1970

Jalon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jalon has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999peak #873, 2001boys
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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#4,70721
2024#6,83212
2023#4,88620
2022#4,44223
2021#5,77615
2020#4,85519
2019#5,15318
2018#4,47622
2017#3,24935
2016#4,47022
2015#3,14936
2014#2,88540
2013#2,89539
2012#3,00238
2011#2,85241
2010#2,63246
2009#15,2426#2,62347
2008#2,02869
2007#13,9247#1,97271
2006#1,52698
2005#14,5026#1,57388
2004#16,0995#1,50289
2003#1,111138
2002#12,1877#1,184118
2001#873183
2000#10,7458#958159
1999#14,4115#944154
1998#12,4266#918155
1997#1,116113
1996#11,8076#1,141104
1995#1,26885
1994#11,7786#1,34575
1993#1,42067
1992#11,7386#2,12836
1991#2,98921
1990#3,60716
1989#3,61815
1988#3,35015
1987#3,95911
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1982#3,96610
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Jalon! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Jalon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,125 spots since 2024 (#6,832#4,707)
  • 148 spots since 2020 (#4,855#4,707)
  • 1,558 spots since 2015 (#3,149#4,707)
  • Biggest jump: 198 spots in 1998 (#1,116#918)
  • Biggest drop: 311 spots in 2002 (#873#1,184)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2001 at #873 (183 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1998–2001
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,617
  • Highest: 1 in 10,617 boys born in 2001 were named Jalon (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 42.9% of all boys named Jalon (1,060) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s43#3,357 (1979)#4,001
1980s92#3,256 (1980)#3,961
1990s826#918 (1998)#1,688
2000s1,060#873 (2001)#1,535
2010s337#2,632 (2010)#3,476
2020s110#4,442 (2022)#5,250

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

Jalon in 1999

girls
#14,411
5 births · 1 in 354,765 girls
boys
#944
154 births · 1 in 12,469 boys

Top girls' names in 1999

  1. #1Emily26,542
  2. #2Hannah21,679
  3. #3Alexis19,237
  4. #4Sarah19,119
  5. #5Samantha19,044
  6. #6Ashley18,136
  7. #7Madison18,054
  8. #8Taylor16,906
  9. #9Jessica16,350
  10. #10Elizabeth15,350
  11. #14,411Jalon5

Top boys' names in 1999

  1. #1Jacob35,371
  2. #2Michael33,915
  3. #3Matthew30,418
  4. #4Joshua27,265
  5. #5Nicholas25,639
  6. #6Christopher25,604
  7. #7Andrew23,866
  8. #8Joseph23,220
  9. #9Daniel22,704
  10. #10Tyler22,669
  11. #944Jalon154
More about 1999

girls

1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 354,765 of them was named Jalon, which outranked 15.0% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jalon
  1. #12,688Zuriel6
  2. #12,688Zyana6
  3. #12,688Zyia6
  4. #14,411Jalon5
  5. #14,411Aalijah5
  6. #14,411Aania5
  7. #14,411Aanya5

Tied with 2,536 names at #14,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,407Citlalli#2,338#931
  2. 1,329Noelia#2,048#719
  3. 1,060Amaya#1,458#398
  4. 864Kyara#1,789#925
  5. 604Journey#1,557#953
Fallers
  1. 579Erykah#779#1,358
  2. 417Tea#747#1,164
  3. 415Tasia#800#1,215
  4. 406Monika#930#1,336
  5. 357Chase#952#1,309

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

boys

1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 12,469 of them was named Jalon, which outranked 91.9% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jalon
  1. #940Matteo155
  2. #940Omari155
  3. #940Samson155
  4. #944Jalon154
  5. #944Alek154
  6. #944Ean154
  7. #944Trae154
  8. #948Amos153
  9. #948Hans153
  10. #948Jude153

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

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,239Trajan#2,235#996
  2. 669Tyreese#1,558#889
  3. 595Latrell#1,231#636
  4. 420Zion#694#274
  5. 414Xander#1,338#924
Fallers
  1. 381Jaret#555#936
  2. 362Kordell#841#1,203
  3. 313Juwan#524#837
  4. 296Jarett#743#1,039
  5. 288Christion#989#1,277

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

See the top 100 for 1999