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Jaylen

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Jaylen is ranked 324th among boys in 2024 (1,061 births). Its best rank was 175th, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
#324down 54 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,0610.06% of boys
Peak year
20092,236 births
Best rank
#175in 2009
Since 1991
44,994people given the name
Babies named Jaylen, by year of birthboys
06251.3k1.9k2.5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

39,984 boys have been named Jaylen in the United States since 1991, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 2,236 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 317 → 324).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 47%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,010 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Jaylen
1990s3,704
2000s18,696
2010s12,144
2020s5,440

In 2009, its biggest year

Jaylen was the 175th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Jaylen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.