girls:
299 births since 1994
#5417 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1993
#3260 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1993
#6082 (21st percentile)
The name Jailen is the #6,082 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,667 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,260 (28.9% percentile) for all time with 1,368 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,417 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 1994.
Jailen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 1994 for girls).
The name Jailen has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jailen were boys.
For boys, Jailen reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #736) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 45 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jailen ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 20.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jailen reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #875) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jailen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jailen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Jailen is pronounced as JAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-lihn, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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