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Jaylen vs Jayliana

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 694 Jaylianas. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaylen against Jayliana, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaylen Jayliana

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

Jaylen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Jaylen had 1,255 and Jayliana had 54.

Side by side

  Jaylen Jayliana
Total US births 45,951694
Most in one year 2,54654
Babies in 2025 94237
Estimated living today 45,000690
Median age today 1610
Peak year 20092014
Best rank 175th boys3,080th girls
Rank in 2025 361st3,903rd
First recorded 19912000
Girls / boys 5,047 / 40,904694 / 0

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 Jaylens alive today are over 16; half the Jaylianas are over 10. That is 6 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: Jaylen and Jayliana.