Jaelen
#5,102 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaelen has been given to 1,626 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,102 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 95 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Jaelen, 2025
1 in 174,000
Jaelen over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jaelen over time
In 2025, Jaelen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jaelen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 89,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,102
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaelen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaelen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaelens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaelen was born before 2004 — so the typical Jaelen is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,409
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (704).
Is Jaelen rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −484
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −335
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,083
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 2000 (95)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Jaelen
Jaelen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 29.7% against Jaelen's 0.15%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Jaelen is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Jaelen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 214,329 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jaelen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Jaelen is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Jaelen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,231,752 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jaelen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jaelen around the world
Where Jaelen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2017#3,996in 2017
- Canada2006–2019#2,943in 2019
- South Australia2001–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jaelen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jaelen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jaelen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.