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Jalon

#4,774 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jalon has been given to 2,542 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,774 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Jalon, 2025

1 in 158,000

Jalon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jalon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jalon means

Jalon is a given name.

The naming story behind Jalon

Wikidata records Jalon as a given name. The entity identifier is Q111905505, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,468 boys were recorded with the name Jalon between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 2001; its best national rank was #873 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,929 in 2020 to #4,774 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,183 in 2015 to #4,774 in 2025.

In the United States, 74 girls were recorded with the name Jalon between 1974 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,065 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jalon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,774
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jalon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jalons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalon was born before 2001 — so the typical Jalon is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,468
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (1,060).

Is Jalon 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
+2,225
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+155
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,591
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.5%
Peak was 2001 (183)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
2001

Spellings of Jalon

Jalon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 21.9% against Jalon'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 Jalon is used

Across 1910–2025, Jalon was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 99,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 25,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Jalon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jalon around the world

Where Jalon 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jalon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,774
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 155
Best rank ever
#873
2001
Peak year
2001
183 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,468
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,065
1974
Peak year
2000
8 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jalon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jalon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jalon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jalon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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