How rare is the name Jaylon?

8,119 people in the United States have the first name Jaylon, about 1 in 37,201. It ranks #2,848 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAYLON

#2,848

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,119
About
1 in 37,201
This common or more
81%
Who bears it

Of the 8,119 people named Jaylon, 72.7% reported their origin as Black, 10.6% as White and 8.4% as two or more races. 96.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jaylon peaked in 2002, when 661 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762025
Peak year
2002
Births that year
661
In 2025*
88 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 10,442 babies have been given the name since 1976. 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.

Jaylon by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,001. The largest share of babies named Jaylon, 72.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#16,22023
1980s#11,32782
1990s#1,5542,301
2000s#1,0015,511
2010s#2,3291,845
2020s#3,277680
Generation X 1965–800.3%
Millennials 1981–969.8%
Generation Z 1997–1272.8%
2013 and later17.1%

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 Jaylon is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jaylon has been most common in Mississippi (6×), Louisiana (5.2×), and Alabama (3.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.16×).

8,750 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.

Either side of Jaylon

#2,846 Williams · 8,123#2,847 Eula · 8,120#2,849 Geri · 8,113#2,850 Mariaelena · 8,110

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,185 Jaylen · 33,253#1,937 Jaylin · 14,485#3,455 Jaylyn · 6,015#4,233 Jaylan · 4,493#7,471 Jalon · 2,042#16,872 Jayln · 662#18,609 Jaelon · 578#34,154 Jailon · 240

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