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Jaylen vs Jaylie

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 1,030 Jaylies. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaylen Jaylie

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 2015, when Jaylen had 1,152 and Jaylie had 45.

Side by side

  Jaylen Jaylie
Total US births 45,9511,030
Most in one year 2,54673
Babies in 2025 94220
Estimated living today 45,0001,000
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 175th boys2,557th girls
Rank in 2025 361st5,917th
First recorded 19911997
Girls / boys 5,047 / 40,9041,030 / 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 Jaylies are over 14. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaylen Jaylie
France 22540

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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