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The first name 
Jaelynn

Jaelynn is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Jaelynn is a common name for girls!

The name Jaelynn isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Jaelynn ranks 678. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Jaelynn. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jaelynn.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jaelynn

What does the name 
Jaelynn mean?

The name Jaelynn was created as a feminine form of Jalen, a modern invented name. It was popularized by the basketball player Jalen Rose during the 1990s.

Jalen was composed of the... names James and Leonard, Jalen Rose's father and uncle.

Jaelynn -
keeping with the times

Jaelynn is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jaelynn cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #467 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2010. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jaelynn, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jaelynn seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Jaelynn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Jaelynn in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

226 babies were named Jaelynn in 2022 - that's 1 in 673,781 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Jaelynn ranked 989 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Jaelynn has 7 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With seven letters, the name Jaelynn has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
J, a, e, l, y, n and n

If you take all the letters in the name Jaelynn – J, a, e, l, y, n and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Anjelyn or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jaelynn

If your name is Jaelynn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Jaelynn

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jaelynn, you can simply say:

Joker

Apple

Elephant

Lion

Yoyo

Nut

Nut

This is how the name Jaelynn is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jaelynn in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jaelynn

Jaelynn

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jaelynn

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jaelynn is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
A
E
L
Y
N
N

Have you ever waved the name Jaelynn

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
A
E
L
Y
N
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jaelynn sounds like this: