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Jaylon

#1,816 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Jalen

Jaylon has been given to 10,442 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,816 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 646 recorded.

Babies named Jaylon, 2025

1 in 37,700

Jaylon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaylon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jalen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaylon means

Jaylon is a variant of Jalen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jalen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,190 boys were recorded with the name Jaylon between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 646 in 2002; its best national rank was #398 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,283 in 2020 to #1,816 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,135 in 2015 to #1,816 in 2025.

In the United States, 252 girls were recorded with the name Jaylon between 1992 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,290 in 1997.

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 Jaylon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,816
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaylon 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaylons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaylon was born before 2004 — so the typical Jaylon is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,190
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Choose a decade

2000s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (5,371).

Is Jaylon 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
+12
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−533
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−681
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.6%
Peak was 2002 (646)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#398
2002

Spellings of Jaylon

Jaylon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 47.5% against Jaylon's 0.46%.

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 Jaylon is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaylon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 13,807 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,564
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 4,762
  3. 3Alabama1 in 6,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 6,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 8,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 8,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 9,091
  8. 8Illinois1 in 14,286

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.

Jaylon around the world

Where Jaylon 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 & Wales
    2003–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #2,901
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jaylon

People whose public names include Jaylon, 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.

Jaylon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,816
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 533
Best rank ever
#398
2002
Peak year
2002
646 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,190
Count in 2025
88

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,290
1997
Peak year
1997
19 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
252
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaylon

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

JaylinJaydonJaylanJaycobJayvonJayceonJaydanJaydinJaysenJaysonJaylenJaymesJayvenJaymeJaylynJayvionMahlonJayceeJaycenTalonJaykobJayceJaydynJayvin

Names with a curve like Jaylon

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

KeshawnTyreseTristinKolbyCamronDevynTristonKobyTrevionSavionLatrellDavion

Sibling names for Jaylon

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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