girls:
252 births since 1992
#5464 (4th percentile)
boys:
10k births since 1976
#1167 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.3k births since 1976
#2635 (66th percentile)
The name Jaylon is the #2,635 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,260 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 66.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,167 (74.6% percentile) for all time with 10,008 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,464 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 252 births since 1992.
Jaylon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1992 for girls).
The name Jaylon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jaylon reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 53.9% percentile (ranked #375) with 313 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 313 births per million (ranked 53.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jaylon ranks #809 for boys (11.2% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 18.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jaylon reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #849) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaylon".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jaylon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.9% confident that Jaylon is pronounced as JAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-lawn, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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