Jalen

What Jalen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jalen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #442 vs #1,798 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jalen?

US: Rising: up from #590 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3004 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 3,513 boys got the name (#106 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 2,402 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.82 per 1,000 boys), PA (0.98 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jalen is #442 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jalen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jaylen907 US · 46 E&W
• Jaylin111 US
• Jaylon88 US
• Jaylan49 US · 6 E&W
• Jalon21 US
• Jaylyn20 US
• Jaelyn19 US
• Jaelen19 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jalen

Boys

• Andres#200Spanish form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Nicolas#177Variant of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Connor#166“lover of hounds”^*
• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Dylan#41Welsh, meaning “to, of + tide”^*

For a sister

• Madeline#81Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #81 vs #304 in 2025
• Summer#151Editor’s note Up from #193 in 2015 to #151 in 2025 in the US
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Savannah#135From the word “savannah”^*
• Hailey#104“hay + clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jalen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.