Jalyn

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 58 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
58
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jalyn by the numbers

Jalyn was given to 58 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 355 babies in 2003, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jalyn

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 Jalyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jaylyn155 in the US (2017)
  • Jalin11 in the US (2017)
  • Jaryn7 in the US (2017)
  • Jacyn5 in the US (2017)
  • JaxsynGod is gracious; a modern respelling of Jackson81 in the US (2017)
  • Jaminright hand; favoured; a form of Benjamin41 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jalyn

Names that are said the same way as Jalyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Jalyn

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