How rare is the name Jaylee?

6,325 people in the United States have the first name Jaylee, about 1 in 47,752. It ranks #3,353 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JAYLEE

#3,353

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,325
About
1 in 47,752
This common or more
82.2%
Who bears it

Of the 6,325 people named Jaylee, 57.2% reported their origin as White, 23.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.8% as Black. 97.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jaylee peaked in 2012, when 513 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19812025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
513
In 2025*
171 ▼67%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,601 babies have been given the name since 1981. 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.

Jaylee by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,343. The largest share of babies named Jaylee, 52.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#15,63443
1990s#5,645332
2000s#1,5852,857
2010s#1,3434,006
2020s#2,0481,363
Millennials 1981–962.1%
Generation Z 1997–1252.9%
2013 and later45%

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 Jaylee is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jaylee has been most common in Utah (4.7×), Oklahoma (3.5×), and Idaho (2.3×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.23×).

6,840 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 Jaylee

1 other first name also has 6,325 people.

Spelled almost the same

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

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