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Jayla vs Jaylynn

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 9,939 Jaylynns. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayla against Jaylynn, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayla Jaylynn

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 58 years in which either name was published, Jayla for 54 years and Jaylynn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jayla Jaylynn
Total US births 46,4839,939
Most in one year 3,417668
Babies in 2025 569105
Estimated living today 46,0009,800
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20062009
Best rank 99th girls484th girls
Rank in 2025 529th2,051st
First recorded 19681963
Girls / boys 46,432 / 519,348 / 591

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.

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: Jayla and Jaylynn.