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Jaylin

Jaylin reached its high-water mark in 2002 at number 387, and has been recorded 19,608 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,547th. About 19,000 Jaylins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jaylin boys named Jaylin

Girls and boys called Jaylin

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

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Jaylin crossed from boys to girls in 2010, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 71% girls, and in 2025 it was 51%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 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
19,608
Estimated living today
19,000
Median age today
18
Peak year
2002
Best rank
387th
Rank in 2025
1,547th
First recorded
1982
Girls / boys
9,209 / 10,399

How old the living Jaylins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 19,608 babies given the name since 1982, about 19,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 9,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 the name comes from

Origin a coined name

20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylen and Jaylynn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Jaylins

People named Jaylin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jaylin is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jaylin is most concentrated in Georgia (2.2×), Florida (2.2×), Mississippi (1.7×), South Carolina (1.7×).

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

Names of 2002

The most popular boys’ names the year Jaylin peaked:

All the names of 2002

Jaylin elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Jaylin 3 4,678th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Jaylin 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.