Jalyn
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Given to girls 72.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 343 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,827since 1955
Jalyn over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #10,107 | 9 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #4,343 | 24 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #2,714 | 64 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #2,356 | 79 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #1,556 | 143 | #2,169 | 61 |
| 2009 | #1,572 | 143 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | #1,227 | 206 | #2,088 | 66 |
| 2007 | #1,141 | 225 | #1,772 | 83 |
| 2006 | #938 | 279 | #1,526 | 98 |
| 2005 | #905 | 277 | #1,381 | 108 |
| 2004 | #816 | 307 | #1,425 | 99 |
| 2003 | #721 | 355 | #1,296 | 108 |
| 2002 | #823 | 283 | #1,288 | 105 |
| 2001 | #758 | 316 | #1,137 | 122 |
| 2000 | #688 | 343 | #1,196 | 113 |
| 1999 | #905 | 233 | #1,436 | 81 |
| 1998 | #1,010 | 197 | #1,585 | 66 |
| 1997 | #1,265 | 140 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,296 | 133 | #1,413 | 74 |
| 1995 | #1,294 | 129 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #1,331 | 127 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #1,438 | 112 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #2,488 | 51 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
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| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1955
The first year at least five girls were named Jalyn! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jalyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Jalyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jalyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,107)
- 4,620 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 217 spots in 2000
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 2007
Rise & fade · girls
45 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2000 at #688 (343 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1999–2006
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,147
- Highest: 1 in 5,147 girls born in 2003 were named Jalyn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #688 in 2000, was only 1 in 5,295 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 56.6% of all girls named Jalyn (2,734) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
- Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,828 (1955) | #5,828 |
| 1960s | 37 | #4,263 (1962) | #5,358 |
| 1970s | 59 | #4,626 (1979) | #6,716 |
| 1980s | 114 | #4,635 (1985) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 1,159 | #905 (1999) | #2,108 |
| 2000s | 2,734 | #688 (2000) | #959 |
| 2010s | 630 | #1,556 (2010) | #3,332 |
| 2020s | 89 | #5,487 (2020) | #7,772 |
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.
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