Jalen
Jalen is ranked 467th among boys in 2024 (659 births). Its best rank was 106th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #467down 37 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6590.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 20003,513 births
- Best rank
- #106in 2000
- Since 1976
- 41,824people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,113 boys have been named Jalen in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 3,513 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 572 → 467).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 51%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,711 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Jalen was the 106th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Jalen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaquezpeak 2002
- Keshonpeak 2000
- Jalinpeak 2001
- Kobypeak 2000
- Kevonpeak 2000
- Treveonpeak 2000
- Jakobpeak 2001
- Keshawnpeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.