Jaylen
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #361 for boys in 2025, 907 births
Given to boys 89.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 2,236 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 40,904since 1991
Jaylen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #361 | 907 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | #323 | 1,066 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 | #270 | 1,245 |
| 2022 | #2,346 | 79 | #319 | 1,053 |
| 2021 | #2,071 | 92 | #317 | 1,045 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 | #319 | 1,037 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | #336 | 998 |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | #340 | 983 |
| 2017 | #1,409 | 162 | #342 | 995 |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 | #369 | 901 |
| 2015 | #1,520 | 148 | #343 | 1,004 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 | #317 | 1,097 |
| 2013 | #1,277 | 185 | #291 | 1,200 |
| 2012 | #1,085 | 229 | #256 | 1,434 |
| 2011 | #1,061 | 232 | #206 | 1,727 |
| 2010 | #904 | 289 | #203 | 1,812 |
| 2009 | #884 | 310 | #175 | 2,236 |
| 2008 | #858 | 324 | #185 | 2,156 |
| 2007 | #868 | 321 | #193 | 2,085 |
| 2006 | #1,036 | 247 | #191 | 2,077 |
| 2005 | #1,093 | 218 | #194 | 1,999 |
| 2004 | #958 | 250 | #205 | 1,791 |
| 2003 | #1,149 | 188 | #203 | 1,814 |
| 2002 | #1,205 | 168 | #215 | 1,598 |
| 2001 | #1,235 | 163 | #238 | 1,426 |
| 2000 | #1,310 | 145 | #224 | 1,514 |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 | #293 | 980 |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 | #349 | 758 |
| 1997 | #2,391 | 55 | #477 | 451 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #495 | 426 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #520 | 385 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | #542 | 357 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 | #667 | 238 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,094 | 101 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #5,942 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jaylen! It came in at #5,942, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Jaylen is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#176 · 1 in 707
- Rhode Island#204 · 1 in 782
- South Carolina#216 · 1 in 922
- Alabama#218 · 1 in 924
- Florida#218 · 1 in 1,020
Best ever in a state: #45 in Mississippi, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #176 | 19 | 1 in 707 |
| Rhode Island | #204 | 5 | 1 in 782 |
| South Carolina | #216 | 23 | 1 in 922 |
| Alabama | #218 | 25 | 1 in 924 |
| Florida | #218 | 96 | 1 in 1,020 |
| Maryland | #225 | 27 | 1 in 1,021 |
| Georgia | #236 | 54 | 1 in 996 |
| Connecticut | #246 | 12 | 1 in 1,175 |
| Nevada | #254 | 13 | 1 in 1,035 |
| North Carolina | #255 | 45 | 1 in 1,155 |
| Tennessee | #266 | 32 | 1 in 1,131 |
| Missouri | #281 | 24 | 1 in 1,317 |
| Illinois | #289 | 46 | 1 in 1,395 |
| Louisiana | #305 | 19 | 1 in 1,293 |
| Michigan | #324 | 30 | 1 in 1,591 |
| Ohio | #329 | 35 | 1 in 1,695 |
| Pennsylvania | #332 | 33 | 1 in 1,795 |
| Virginia | #339 | 24 | 1 in 1,734 |
| New Jersey | #360 | 21 | 1 in 1,977 |
| Kentucky | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,181 |
| Massachusetts | #412 | 11 | 1 in 2,676 |
| Oregon | #416 | 9 | 1 in 2,042 |
| Texas | #416 | 80 | 1 in 2,315 |
| Arkansas | #441 | 7 | 1 in 2,053 |
| Wisconsin | #461 | 11 | 1 in 2,448 |
| Indiana | #466 | 14 | 1 in 2,541 |
| New York | #479 | 34 | 1 in 2,941 |
| Arizona | #495 | 13 | 1 in 2,773 |
| California | #498 | 68 | 1 in 3,289 |
| Minnesota | #510 | 10 | 1 in 2,799 |
| Oklahoma | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,896 |
| Iowa | #572 | 5 | 1 in 3,047 |
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 3,132 |
| Washington | #847 | 6 | 1 in 6,173 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jaylen
- 38 spots since 2024 (#323 → #361)
- 42 spots since 2020 (#319 → #361)
- 18 spots since 2015 (#343 → #361)
- Biggest jump: 427 spots in 1993 (#1,094 → #667)
- Biggest drop: 53 spots in 2024 (#270 → #323)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2009 at #175 (2,236 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1993–2025
- Highest: 1 in 887 boys born in 2009 were named Jaylen (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,883 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 45.7% of all boys named Jaylen (18,696) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3,704 | #293 (1999) | #1,153 |
| 2000s | 18,696 | #175 (2009) | #202 |
| 2010s | 12,151 | #203 (2010) | #300 |
| 2020s | 6,353 | #270 (2023) | #318 |
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.
Jaylen in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,938 of them was named Jaylen, which outranked 92.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,420Kayleen163
- #1,420Letty163
- #1,420Rachael163
- #1,425Jaylen162
- #1,425Cheyanne162
- #1,425Eleni162
- #1,425Janet162
- #1,434Ashanti161
- #1,434Aubriana161
- #1,434Kourtney161
Tied with 8 names at #1,425; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 2,106 of them was named Jaylen, which outranked 97.4% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.