Jaylen

Where Jaylen comes from

The dictionaries list Jaylen as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jalen — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1991
    First appearance
    #5,942 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Jaylen Barron born
    American child actor, film actor and actor
  3. 1999
    Jaylen Nowell born
    American basketball player
  4. 2009
    Peak, #175
    2,236 babies named Jaylen — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #317.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jalen.
Namesakes
  • Jaylen Nowell · American basketball player, born 1999
  • Jaylen Barron · American child actor, film actor and actor, born 1998
  • Jaylen Wells · American basketball player, born 2003
  • Jaylen Clark · American basketball player, born 2001
  • Jaylen Hands · American basketball player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.