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Jaelin vs Jaelynn

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 2,180 Jaelins. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaelin against Jaelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaelin Jaelynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Jaelynn for 32 years and Jaelin for 6 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jaelin Jaelynn
Total US births 2,1809,508
Most in one year 150605
Babies in 2025 10121
Estimated living today 2,1009,400
Median age today 2114
Peak year 20032010
Best rank 1,548th boys503rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th1,692nd
First recorded 19921984
Girls / boys 918 / 1,2629,354 / 154

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaelins alive today are over 21; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaelin and Jaelynn.