Jalene
Feminine
Jalene is given to both — 1,160 girls and 67 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Jalene belongs to a set in which the ending stayed fixed for thirty years while the front changed every decade. The back half of this name was attached to Char-, Dar-, Mar-, Ar-, Jo- and a dozen other openings between the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-sixties, and it is the constant in a family of variables.
How old is the name Jalene?
Jalene first appears in US birth records in 1939 — 86 years ago. The typical Jalene alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,100 people named Jalene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalene most popular?
Jalene peaked in 1954, reaching #2889 nationally. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalene
Watching one ending across three decades is one of the clearest ways to see how a naming tradition works. The suffix appears, attached to a particular famous name; within a few years it is being used on other fronts, which means people have stopped hearing it as part of a name and started hearing it as a piece; it then runs through the available fronts more or less systematically, favoring the ones already common in the population; and then it stops, quite abruptly, as the whole shape starts to sound like the previous generation. The fronts are the fashion and the ending is the frame. Reading a set of names like this horizontally, across a decade, tells you more than reading any one of them down through its own history.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning. The ending came loose from a German stage name in the nineteen-thirties and went into general circulation as naming material; the front is a syllable in wide American use. Neither half brings a sense into the compound and the compound does not develop one.
Pronouncing Jalene
juh-LEEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The first vowel is reduced to nothing, which is why the record also holds Jaleen and Jolene with closely related sounds.
Nicknames for Jalene
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
- 1939
- Most girls named
- 200341 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2889reached in 1954
- Change vs 2019
- −16.7%5 in 2024, from 6
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.
Jalenes among us
people named Jalene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jalene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Final stress gives the name a definite finish and makes it carry when called.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English and it is never mispronounced twice.
- The record carries it for boys as well as girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- Jaleen, Jaline and Jalyn all exist for closely related sounds.
- The ending places the name firmly in the middle of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Jalene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jalene in 2025?
- Jalene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jalene with classmates?
- Jalene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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