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Jaelyn vs Jaelynn

American parents have registered 15,601 Jaelyns since 1880, against 9,508 Jaelynns. But in 2025 it was Jaelynn that was commoner, 121 babies to 117.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaelyn against Jaelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaelyn Jaelynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Jaelyn for 43 years and Jaelynn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Jaelyn Jaelynn
Total US births 15,6019,508
Most in one year 1,090605
Babies in 2025 117121
Estimated living today 15,0009,400
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20082010
Best rank 332nd girls503rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,962nd1,692nd
First recorded 19631984
Girls / boys 14,201 / 1,4009,354 / 154

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaelyns alive today are over 16; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaelyn Jaelynn
England and Wales 243

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaelyn and Jaelynn.