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Jaylen vs Jaylynn

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 9,939 Jaylynns. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaylen 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 53 years in which either name was published, Jaylen for 34 years and Jaylynn for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaylen Jaylynn
Total US births 45,9519,939
Most in one year 2,546668
Babies in 2025 942105
Estimated living today 45,0009,800
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 175th boys484th girls
Rank in 2025 361st2,051st
First recorded 19911963
Girls / boys 5,047 / 40,9049,348 / 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: Jaylen and Jaylynn.