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Jalah vs Jalynn

American parents have registered 5,159 Jalynns since 1880, against 602 Jalahs. Jalynn is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jalah against Jalynn, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jalah Jalynn

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

Jalynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Jalah had 7 and Jalynn had 18.

Side by side

  Jalah Jalynn
Total US births 6025,159
Most in one year 48329
Babies in 2025 under 523
Estimated living today 6005,100
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20002007
Best rank 2,940th girls910th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,838th
First recorded 19931957
Girls / boys 597 / 54,774 / 385

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.

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