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 [ syll. jay-len, ja-yl-en ] The boy name Jaylen is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is JHEY-LahN KEY. Jaylen is used predominantly in the English language and its origin is also English. Jaylen is a variant of the name Jalen (English). Jaylen is also a variant of the name Jay (English). Jaylen is popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also viewed as trendy. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1990s; before that, it was of very modest use only. Its usage peaked recently in 2008 with 0.099% of baby boys being given the name Jaylen. Its ranking then was #184. Among all boy names in its group, Jaylen was the most popular in 2008. Jaylen was twice as popular as the next most popular name, Jalen (English), in that year. Jaylen has in the past century been predominantly given to boys. In 2007, boys named Jaylen outnumbered girls by 6 times. Baby names that sound like Jaylen include Jaylan (English), Jalen (English), Jalon (English), Jaylin (English), Jaylon (English), Jillean (English), Jolon, Jelani (Igbo), Jillian (English), Jolyon (English), Julian (English, German, and Polish), Julián (Spanish), Julien (French), and Giuliano (Italian). KEY: approx pronunciation for Jaylen: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"   |
