Jaylen - Meaning of Jaylen

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Jaylen

[ 2 syll. jay-len, ja-yl-en ] The baby boy name Jaylen is sometimes used as a girl name. It is pronounced as JHEY-LehN †. Jaylen is an English name of English-American and English origin.

Jaylen is a variant of the name Jalen (English).

Jaylen is also a variant (English) of the name Jay (English and Indian).

See also the related categories, english and american.

Jaylen is fairly popular as a baby name for boys. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1990s; before that, it was of very modest use only. Its usage peaked in 2009 with 0.105% of baby boys being given the name Jaylen. Its ranking then was #175. In 2018, its usage was 0.050% and its ranking #342, and it was the most popular among all boy names in its group. In 2018, Jaylen was more regularly used than the next most popular name, Jay, by 23% . Jaylen has in the past century been predominantly given to baby boys. In 2010, baby boys named Jaylen outnumbered girls by 6 times.

Baby names that sound like Jaylen include Jalen, Jaylan, Jaelin, Jaelyn, Jailin, Jaillin, Jailyn, Jalan, Jalin, Jalon, Jalyn, Jaylin, Jaylon, Jaylonn, Jolan, Jolin, Jolon, Jolun, Jolyn, and Joslin.

† Pronunciation for Jaylen: JH as in "joy (JH.OY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"