# Jaylon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jaylon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,442 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,190 / 252 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 121, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 15 | 6,506 |
| 1999 | 14 | 6,995 |
| 2000 | 18 | 6,062 |
| 2001 | 19 | 5,925 |
| 2002 | 15 | 7,209 |
| 2003 | 19 | 6,169 |
| 2004 | 17 | 6,921 |
| 2005 | 16 | 7,286 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,380 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,195 |
| 2008 | 11 | 10,386 |
| 2009 | 12 | 9,655 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,122 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,729 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,618 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 223 | 908 |
| 2012 | 200 | 996 |
| 2013 | 170 | 1,090 |
| 2014 | 174 | 1,097 |
| 2015 | 167 | 1,135 |
| 2016 | 157 | 1,205 |
| 2017 | 144 | 1,269 |
| 2018 | 135 | 1,336 |
| 2019 | 152 | 1,241 |
| 2020 | 143 | 1,283 |
| 2021 | 128 | 1,427 |
| 2022 | 124 | 1,462 |
| 2023 | 108 | 1,615 |
| 2024 | 89 | 1,828 |
| 2025 | 88 | 1,816 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,199 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |

## People named Jaylon

- Jaylon Tyson, American basketball player (born 2002)
- Jaylon Ferguson, American football player (1995–2022)
- Jaylon Smith, American football player (born 1995)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.