Jailee
Feminine
Jailee is one of the youngest names on this site. Its best year in American records is 2021, which is as recent as the data goes for a name with a peak at all, and it means the curve has not finished happening yet.
How old is the name Jailee?
Jailee first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Jailee is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Jailee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jailee most popular?
Jailee peaked in 2021, reaching #3339 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 3,207 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jailee
Almost every name on this site peaked in a decade that has closed, which makes them readable: you can say what generation a name belongs to and what it will sound like in twenty years. A name whose highest year is the most recent year on file cannot be read that way at all. Jailee is in that position. It belongs to the Jayla and Kaylee families, both of which are long established, and it takes the -lee ending rather than the -lyn or -leigh ones, which is currently the least-used of the three. Whether it rises further or stops here is not knowable from the data, and any confident statement about its future is a guess. What can be said is that it is new, that it is spelled the way it sounds, and that the first four letters spell an English word its bearers will have to answer for.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited etymology. The name is built from the Jai- opening, a free American syllable also spelled Jay, and the -lee ending, which derives ultimately from the Old English leah, a clearing, by way of the surname Lee, but functions here purely as a sound. Neither part carries meaning in this position.
Pronouncing Jailee
JAY-lee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The ai is a long a exactly as in rain; it never says the vowel of the English word the first four letters spell.
Nicknames for Jailee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 202147 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3339reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −37.0%17 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jailee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jaylee in English — spelling variant
- Jailee in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Georgia.
Jailees among us
people named Jailee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Jailee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jailee
- #6546
- Jailee on the 2025 chart
- #772
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jailee went to 17 girls in 2025, but Jaylee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 188, which makes it the 772nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,774 places above the chart.
- Jaylee171
- Jailee17
About 1 girl in 8,549 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Jailee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Indra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jailee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Indra climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Indra's path sketches the road Jailee is walking now.
Jailee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jailee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jailee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every part of it is familiar, so it is understood at first hearing.
- Jay and Lee are both complete, unisex and long established.
- Spelled the way it sounds, following English rules throughout.
- The written form contains an English word that will be noticed at school.
- Jaylee avoids that collision entirely and is more common.
- The name is too new for anyone to say how it will age.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jailees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Jailee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jailee?
- Jailee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jaylee is the more common one — 171 births in 2025 against 17 for Jailee.
- How popular is the name Jailee in 2025?
- Jailee ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jailee?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Jailee — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jailee with classmates?
- Jailee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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