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
- 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
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 | #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 | — | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 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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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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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 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#286 · 1 in 1,489
- Mississippi#300 · 1 in 1,354
- Louisiana#390 · 1 in 1,986
- Indiana#487 · 1 in 3,007
- Georgia#491 · 1 in 3,181
Best ever in a state: #156 in District of Columbia, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #286 | 14 | 1 in 1,489 |
| Mississippi | #300 | 9 | 1 in 1,354 |
| Louisiana | #390 | 11 | 1 in 1,986 |
| Indiana | #487 | 11 | 1 in 3,007 |
| Georgia | #491 | 14 | 1 in 3,181 |
| Maryland | #536 | 7 | 1 in 3,420 |
| North Carolina | #565 | 11 | 1 in 3,826 |
| Ohio | #621 | 13 | 1 in 4,740 |
| Illinois | #719 | 14 | 1 in 5,030 |
| Virginia | #747 | 6 | 1 in 5,652 |
| Tennessee | #806 | 5 | 1 in 6,105 |
| Michigan | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 8,586 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,660 |
| Texas | #1,345 | 12 | 1 in 11,954 |
| California | #1,721 | 12 | 1 in 18,418 |
| New York | #1,725 | 6 | 1 in 16,787 |
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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 Jalyn
- 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,107)
- 4,620 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #10,107)
- 6,512 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 217 spots in 2000 (#905 → #688)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 2007 (#938 → #1,141)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2000 at #688 (343 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1999–2006
- 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
- 56.6% of all girls named Jalyn (2,734) were born in this decade
- 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.
Jalyn in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 8,969 of them was named Jalyn, which outranked 93.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,007Billie198
- #1,007Bobbie198
- #1,007Dayna198
- #1,010Jalyn197
- #1,010Annalise197
- #1,010Betty197
- #1,010Rayna197
- #1,015Arely196
- #1,015Chana196
- #1,015Isela196
Tied with 4 names at #1,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 28,960 of them was named Jalyn, which outranked 86.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,574Ravi67
- #1,574Reyes67
- #1,574Saad67
- #1,585Jalyn66
- #1,585Aleksander66
- #1,585Basil66
- #1,585Corban66
- #1,605Ashwin65
- #1,605Demitri65
- #1,605Dontavious65
Tied with 19 names at #1,585; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.