Jalen
Jalen is a boy's name that peaked in 2000, when it was the 106th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 442nd. About 42,000 Jalens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jalen boys named Jalen
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 42,547
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 106th
- Rank in 2025
- 442nd
- First recorded
- 1976
- Girls / boys
- 1,711 / 40,836
How old the living Jalens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 42,547 babies given the name since 1976, about 42,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a combination of James and Len
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jalens
- Jalen Brunson (born 1996)American basketball player
- Jalen Green (born 2002)American basketball player
- Jalen Rose (born 1973)American basketball player
- Jalen Williams (born 2001)American basketball player
- Jalen Johnson (born 2001)American basketball player (born December 2001)
- Jalen Duren (born 2003)American basketball player
- Jalen Smith (born 2000)American basketball player
- Jalen Ramsey (born 1994)American football player
People named Jalen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jalen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jalen is most concentrated in Georgia (2.3×), North Carolina (1.9×), South Carolina (1.9×), Mississippi (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Jalen peaked:
Jalen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jalen | 197 | 1,798th |
| France boys | Jalen | 95 | 2,240th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Jalen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.