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Jazlene vs Jazlyn

American parents have registered 17,490 Jazlyns since 1880, against 1,491 Jazlenes. Jazlyn is still ahead, with 563 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazlene against Jazlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazlene Jazlyn

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

Jazlyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jazlene had 340 and Jazlyn had 860.

Side by side

  Jazlene Jazlyn
Total US births 1,49117,490
Most in one year 340860
Babies in 2025 17563
Estimated living today 1,50017,000
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 833rd girls378th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th537th
First recorded 20001981
Girls / boys 1,491 / 017,490 / 0

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 Jazlenes alive today are over 15; half the Jazlyns are over 13. 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.

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