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Jalon

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Jalon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 874th, in 2001.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
120.00% of boys
Peak year
2001183 births
Best rank
#874in 2001
Since 1970
2,521people given the name
Babies named Jalon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,447 boys have been named Jalon in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 183 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 74 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Jalon
1970s43
1980s92
1990s826
2000s1,060
2010s337
2020s89

In 2001, its biggest year

Jalon was the 874th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.

Names that rose and fell with Jalon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.