Jalin
Masculine
Jalin is given to both — 1,800 boys and 471 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
The -lin ending is doing exactly the same work here that it does in Raelin and Katelyn, and that is the point: the suffix is not male or female on its own. It takes the sex of whatever it is attached to, and Ja- has been a boys' opening in American naming for fifty years.
How old is the name Jalin?
Jalin first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Jalin alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 1,800 people named Jalin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jalin most popular?
Jalin peaked in 2001, reaching #1010 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 5,436 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jalin
Suffixes are usually described as masculine or feminine, and for Latin and Greek that is true, because those endings carry grammatical gender. English suffixes carry none, and the American -lin, -lyn and -lynn family proves it: attached to Kate, Rae and Made it produces girls' names, and attached to Ja-, Jay- and Ky- it produces boys', and the ending itself never changes. What decides is the front of the word and the company it keeps. Jalin belongs to a small group of boys' names in the -lin family, alongside Jalen and Jaylin, which sit right beside the girls' names in the records and are read completely differently. Its best year in United States records is 2001, and the sound was carried more by basketball than by any naming fashion.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited etymology. The name is built from the Ja- opening, a free syllable used across American naming since the 1960s, and the -lin ending derived from Lynn, from a Welsh and English word for a pool. Neither part carries meaning in this position. Glosses connecting it to Arabic or to Jalen and Jalon are associations rather than derivations.
Pronouncing Jalin
JAY-lin
Two syllables with the stress at the front and the second reduced. Some families say juh-LIN with the weight at the end, which is the less common of the two.
Nicknames for Jalin
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
- 1991
- Most boys named
- 2001148 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1010reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%13 in 2025, from 13
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.
Jalin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jalen in English — spelling variant
- Jaylin in English — spelling variant
Jalins among us
people named Jalin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Jalin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jalin
- #6446
- Jalin on the 2025 chart
- #897
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jalin went to 13 boys in 2025, but Jalyn and Jalynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 31, which makes it the 897th most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,549 places above the chart.
- Jalin13
- Jalyn11
- Jalynn7
About 1 boy in 55,099 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 131,390 for Jalin 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 Vernard test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jalin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vernard climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vernard's path sketches the road Jalin is walking now.
Jalin 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
Jalin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jalin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short, easy to spell and immediately familiar to any American ear.
- Jay works alone at any age and in any register.
- The single-n ending is the plainest spelling in a very crowded family.
- Jalen, Jaylin, Jaylen and Jalyn all share the sound and split the records.
- The same ending is heavily used on girls' names, so the spelling reads either way.
- The name has no meaning to pass on.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jalins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Jalin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jalin?
- Jalin is the most-used spelling in US records — 13 of the 31 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jalyn and Jalynn.
- How popular is the name Jalin in 2025?
- Jalin ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jalin?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Jalin — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jalin with classmates?
- Jalin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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