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Jaelin

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
JAY-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#7,675 for boys

Jaelin is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

Where does Jaelin come from?

Modern: variant of Jaylen, Jay plus -len

Is Jaelin a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Jaelin has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US.

How popular is Jaelin in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,675th among boys
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Jaelin, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 82 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the boys named Jaelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2014, 45% of the babies named Jaelin in the US were girls.

1993Busiest: 82 in 20032025
Jaelin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
20249#8,307
202313#6,512
202210#7,762
202115#5,771
20208#8,734
201912#6,772
20188#8,813
201715#5,784
201617#5,314
201518#5,056
201426#3,888
201318#4,978
201234#3,228
201139#2,949
201050#2,466
200948#2,584
200846#2,683
200754#2,372
200665#2,036
200559#2,077
200466#1,853
200382#1,545
200274#1,617
200178#1,539
200073#1,605
199971#1,557
199862#1,663
199763#1,596
199656#1,687
199538#2,135
199416#3,905
19939#5,764

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jaelin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaelin, updated 20 October 2026.