Jalin
#6,606 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jalin has been given to 2,271 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #6,606 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 148 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Jalin, 2025
1 in 255,000
Jalin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jalin over time
In 2025, Jalin 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 Jalin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,606
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jalin 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jalins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalin was born before 2002 — so the typical Jalin is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,800
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (953).
Is Jalin 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
- +6
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +606
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +234
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.8%
- Peak was 2001 (148)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.9% average annual change
Spellings of Jalin
Jalin is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 30.9% against Jalin's 0.05%.
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 Jalin is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Jalin was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 147,509 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 33,333
- 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 4South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in 100,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8Indiana1 in 100,000
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. Jalin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Jalin is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Jalin was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,680,621 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Jalin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jalin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jalin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jalin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.