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Jaleen vs Jalynn

American parents have registered 5,159 Jalynns since 1880, against 724 Jaleens. Jalynn is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaleen 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

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Jalynn for 59 years and Jaleen for 6 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Jaleen Jalynn
Total US births 7245,159
Most in one year 56329
Babies in 2025 under 523
Estimated living today 7105,100
Median age today 2519
Peak year 20012007
Best rank 2,346th boys910th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,838th
First recorded 19571957
Girls / boys 344 / 3804,774 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaleens alive today are over 25; half the Jalynns are over 19. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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