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
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 1,014 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,201since 1963
Jaelyn 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,962 | 98 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #1,559 | 136 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #1,310 | 173 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #1,183 | 203 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #1,075 | 233 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #1,003 | 254 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #968 | 270 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #827 | 328 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #708 | 406 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #609 | 493 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #601 | 490 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #641 | 446 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #579 | 496 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #471 | 651 | #2,678 | 45 |
| 2011 | #417 | 760 | #2,035 | 66 |
| 2010 | #368 | 865 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #348 | 942 | #1,581 | 102 |
| 2008 | #332 | 1,014 | #1,899 | 76 |
| 2007 | #360 | 905 | #2,117 | 64 |
| 2006 | #442 | 722 | #2,126 | 61 |
| 2005 | #500 | 606 | #2,297 | 51 |
| 2004 | #505 | 576 | #2,102 | 56 |
| 2003 | #535 | 528 | #2,031 | 56 |
| 2002 | #538 | 510 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #562 | 460 | #2,489 | 39 |
| 2000 | #616 | 412 | #2,049 | 49 |
| 1999 | #714 | 317 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #899 | 234 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #1,139 | 164 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #1,318 | 129 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #1,492 | 106 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #1,841 | 77 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #2,195 | 60 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
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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.
Where Jaelyn is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Dakota#135 · 1 in 386
- South Dakota#149 · 1 in 448
- Maine#151 · 1 in 515
- Delaware#182 · 1 in 577
- West Virginia#202 · 1 in 765
Best ever in a state: #95 in South Dakota, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #135 | 7 | 1 in 386 |
| South Dakota | #149 | 7 | 1 in 448 |
| Maine | #151 | 8 | 1 in 515 |
| Delaware | #182 | 5 | 1 in 577 |
| Iowa | #202 | 17 | 1 in 796 |
| West Virginia | #202 | 9 | 1 in 765 |
| Maryland | #203 | 29 | 1 in 872 |
| New Jersey | #210 | 38 | 1 in 1,034 |
| Kentucky | #224 | 20 | 1 in 1,011 |
| New Hampshire | #235 | 5 | 1 in 853 |
| Oklahoma | #237 | 18 | 1 in 969 |
| Nevada | #248 | 13 | 1 in 936 |
| Virginia | #269 | 31 | 1 in 1,213 |
| Indiana | #270 | 27 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Nebraska | #271 | 9 | 1 in 925 |
| Wisconsin | #274 | 22 | 1 in 1,139 |
| South Carolina | #281 | 16 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Florida | #286 | 57 | 1 in 1,510 |
| Ohio | #287 | 39 | 1 in 1,446 |
| Pennsylvania | #290 | 39 | 1 in 1,419 |
| Idaho | #291 | 7 | 1 in 1,053 |
| New York | #304 | 64 | 1 in 1,493 |
| Louisiana | #315 | 15 | 1 in 1,348 |
| Missouri | #321 | 19 | 1 in 1,549 |
| Arizona | #330 | 26 | 1 in 1,404 |
| New Mexico | #336 | 7 | 1 in 1,209 |
| California | #354 | 126 | 1 in 1,820 |
| Minnesota | #369 | 15 | 1 in 1,717 |
| North Carolina | #375 | 27 | 1 in 1,781 |
| Massachusetts | #381 | 15 | 1 in 1,815 |
| Tennessee | #384 | 18 | 1 in 1,789 |
| Texas | #386 | 85 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Connecticut | #400 | 7 | 1 in 1,859 |
| Mississippi | #401 | 8 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Georgia | #405 | 27 | 1 in 1,956 |
| Washington | #407 | 18 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Kansas | #409 | 8 | 1 in 1,729 |
| Michigan | #415 | 21 | 1 in 2,117 |
| Arkansas | #426 | 7 | 1 in 1,747 |
| Colorado | #437 | 13 | 1 in 1,884 |
| Illinois | #449 | 29 | 1 in 2,284 |
| Alabama | #490 | 9 | 1 in 2,331 |
| Oregon | #544 | 7 | 1 in 2,370 |
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| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Jaelyn
- 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)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2008 at #332 (1,014 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1998–2019
- 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%)
- 47.0% of all girls named Jaelyn (6,675) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,592 (1963) | #6,592 |
| 1970s | 14 | #5,984 (1975) | #7,380 |
| 1980s | 66 | #5,678 (1985) | #7,933 |
| 1990s | 1,139 | #714 (1999) | #2,750 |
| 2000s | 6,675 | #332 (2008) | #474 |
| 2010s | 5,205 | #368 (2010) | #619 |
| 2020s | 1,097 | #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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 1,865 of them was named Jaelyn, which outranked 98.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 26,844 of them was named Jaelyn, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,874Wylie77
- #1,874Yehoshua77
- #1,874Zayd77
- #1,899Jaelyn76
- #1,899Aadi76
- #1,899Barron76
- #1,899Brenner76
- #1,916Aaryan75
- #1,916Anirudh75
- #1,916Archie75
Tied with 16 names at #1,899; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.