Jalen
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 453 babies a year in the US.
How Jalen has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #590 |
| 2016 | #576 |
| 2017 | #599 |
| 2018 | #551 |
| 2019 | #530 |
| 2020 | #548 |
| 2021 | #517 |
| 2022 | #524 |
| 2023 | #431 |
| 2024 | #467 |
| 2025 | #443 |
Jalen by the numbers
In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Jalen. In the US, 453 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 3,513 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 590 American boys born that year was called Jalen.
What we can tell you about Jalen
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jalen. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jalen
Names that are said the same way as Jalen, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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