Jalen

Boy · recorded 1976–2025

  • #442in 2025
  • 1 in 2,402boys in 2025
  • +70%last ten years
  • 2.3×in Pennsylvania

Most popular in 2000, and up 70% over the last ten years.

Checking your shortlist…

Compare

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Jalen.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1976

08951,78919761988200120132025

Hover over or drag across the chart to see any year.

Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 41 recorded years as a table
Jalen, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19763
19773
19813
19863
19883
19903
19917
1992306
1993710
1994879
1995733
1996722
1997537
1998831
19991,061
20001,789
20011,606
20021,383
20031,326
20041,019
2005855
2006774
2007618
2008517
2009429
2010375
2011372
2012306
2013288
2014254
2015244
2016254
2017244
2018278
2019300
2020301
2021325
2022327
2023424
2024384
2025416

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Compared with the country as a whole, pooled over 2023–2025.

  1. Pennsylvania 2.3×
  2. New Jersey 1.8×
  3. Louisiana 1.8×
  4. Alabama 1.7×
  5. Maryland 1.5×

See Jalen on a full map

More like it

More like Jalen

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025
711
Rank in 2025
#442
How rare
1 in 2,402 boys
Since 1976
40,836

Most popular in 2000, at 1,789 per million boys born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has risen by 70% per million boys born.

Top 5 states by concentration, pooled over 2023–2025
StateTimes the national rateBirths pooled
Pennsylvania2.3×146
New Jersey1.8×90
Louisiana1.8×44
Alabama1.7×46
Maryland1.5×42

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.