Jlyn
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jlyn has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% girls, 40% boys all-time.
Babies named Jlyn, 2012
1 in 523,000
Jlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jlyn over time
In 2014, Jlyn 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 Jlyn?
Jlyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jlyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jlyn was born before 2005 — so the typical Jlyn is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 80.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 164
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 80.5% of all recorded uses (132).
Is Jlyn 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (26)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jlyn
Jlyn is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 29.6% against Jlyn's 0.01%.
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 Jlyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Jlyn was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,646,555 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. Jlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jlyn around the world
Where Jlyn 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.
- Canada2002–2006#2,587in 2006
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Jlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.