girls:
74 births since 1974
#5642 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1970
#2558 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1970
#5331 (31st percentile)
The name Jalon is the #5,331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,509 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 31.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,558 (44.2% percentile) for all time with 2,435 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,642 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 1974.
Jalon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Jalon is available in 48 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 12 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jalon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jalon reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 21.5% percentile (ranked #648) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 88 births per million (ranked 21.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jalon ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 12.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jalon reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #894) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jalon".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Jalon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.9% confident that Jalon is pronounced as juh-LAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-LAWN, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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