Jalal vs Jalyn
American parents have registered 6,622 Jalyns since 1880, against 755 Jalals. But in 2025 it was Jalal that was commoner, 20 babies to 20.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jalal Jalyn
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 62 years in which either name was published, Jalyn for 49 years and Jalal for 13 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
Side by side
| Jalal | Jalyn | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 755 | 6,622 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 463 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 20 |
| Estimated living today | 730 | 6,500 |
| Median age today | 23 | 22 |
| Peak year | 2003 | 2003 |
| Best rank | 3,732nd boys | 721st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,857th | 10,107th |
| First recorded | 1972 | 1955 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 755 | 4,827 / 1,795 |
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: Jalal and Jalyn.