How rare is the name Jaylan?

4,493 people in the United States have the first name Jaylan, about 1 in 67,223. It ranks #4,233 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JAYLAN

#4,233

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,493
About
1 in 67,223
This common or more
83.7%
Who bears it

Of the 4,493 people named Jaylan, 66.5% reported their origin as Black, 12.9% as White and 10.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 81.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jaylan peaked in 2006, when 369 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19892025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
369
In 2025*
49 ▼87%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 5,539 babies have been given the name since 1989. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jaylan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,524. The largest share of babies named Jaylan, 74.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#29,8365
1990s#2,5221,101
2000s#1,5243,018
2010s#3,3691,086
2020s#5,274329
Millennials 1981–968.5%
Generation Z 1997–1274.6%
2013 and later17%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jaylan is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jaylan has been most common in Mississippi (5×), Georgia (4×), and Tennessee (3.8×), and least common in New York (0.47×).

3,717 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Jaylan

1 other first name also has 4,493 people.

#4,233 Deron · 4,493

Either side of Jaylan

#4,232 Geralyn · 4,494#4,233 Deron · 4,493#4,235 Leslee · 4,492#4,236 Alisson · 4,489

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jaylan, most common first.

#1,185 Jaylen · 33,253#1,937 Jaylin · 14,485#2,848 Jaylon · 8,119#3,455 Jaylyn · 6,015#12,828 Jaylani · 957#13,417 Jalan · 901#16,872 Jayln · 662#30,536 Jaylean · 285

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