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Jalin

About 2,271 American babies have been named Jalin since 1991, most of them around 2001. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 2,200 Jalins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Jalin

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 471 girls and 1,800 boys in all, and in 2012 the split was 7 to 18.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 21 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,271
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
23
Peak year
2001
Best rank
1,010th
Rank in 2025
6,446th
First recorded
1991
Girls / boys
471 / 1,800

How old the living Jalins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Of the 2,271 babies given the name since 1991, about 2,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jalin is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jalin is most concentrated in Georgia (5.3×), South Carolina (4.4×), Mississippi (3.1×), North Carolina (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular boys’ names the year Jalin peaked:

All the names of 2001

Related names

Jalin against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.