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Jalyn

#10,437 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jalyn has been given to 6,622 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #10,437 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 355 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Jalyn, 2025

1 in 368,000

Jalyn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Jalyn went to 45% girls and 55% boys.

19552025

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.

Jalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jalyn means

Jalyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jalyn

Wikidata records Jalyn as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q136479727, 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, 4,827 girls were recorded with the name Jalyn between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 355 in 2003; its best national rank was #688 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,546 in 2020 to #10,437 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,623 in 2015 to #10,437 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,795 boys were recorded with the name Jalyn between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,136 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,815 in 2020 to #7,375 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,787 in 2015 to #7,375 in 2025.

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 Jalyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,437
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jalyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalyn was born before 2003 — so the typical Jalyn is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,827
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (2,734).

Is Jalyn 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
+179
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,891
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,814
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 2003 (355)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#688
2000

Spellings of Jalyn

Jalyn is not the most common spelling — Jan is, with 7.6% against Jalyn's 0.67%.

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 Jalyn is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jalyn was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 43,387 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 25,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 25,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 25,000

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. Jalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jalyn is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jalyn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 127,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Jalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jalyn around the world

Where Jalyn 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.

  • Canada
    2000–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jalyn

People whose public names include Jalyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jalyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,437
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,891
Best rank ever
#688
2000
Peak year
2003
355 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,827
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,375
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,560
Best rank ever
#1,136
2001
Peak year
2001
122 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,795
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Jalyn

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

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Names with a curve like Jalyn

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

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Sibling names for Jalyn

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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