Jaylon

Where Jaylon comes from

Jaylon hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #4,935 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Jaylon Ferguson born
    American football player
  3. 2002
    Jaylon Tyson born
    American basketball player
  4. 2002
    Peak, #398
    646 babies named Jaylon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #749.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jaylon Tyson · American basketball player, born 2002
  • Jaylon Ferguson · American football player, 1995–2022
  • Jaylon Smith · American football player, born 1994
  • Jaylon Brown · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Jaylon Johnson · American football player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.