Jaylon
Jaylon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 89 births. Its best rank was 398th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 890.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2002646 births
- Best rank
- #398in 2002
- Since 1976
- 10,352people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,100 boys have been named Jaylon in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 646 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 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 53%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 252 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Jaylon was the 398th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Jaylon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keshawnpeak 2000
- Keseanpeak 2001
- Jaelenpeak 2000
- Jaylanpeak 2006
- Trevionpeak 2002
- Keshaunpeak 2001
- Treveonpeak 2000
- Jaquezpeak 2002
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.