Jalen
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jaylen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jalen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 10K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 42K
- SISlovenia1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)
33,290 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jaylen.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Jalen is read(measured from records)
Jalen is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English86%
A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jaylen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.8%
inflection of jalar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jalen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 33,290 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Jalen | 357 |
| CN China | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Jalen | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 812K | — | Jalen | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Jalen | 31 |
| CA Canada | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 8 | Jalen | 77 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 3 | Jalen | 50 |
| SI Slovenia | 47 | 1 in 45K | 75 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | Jalen | 3 |
33,290 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jalen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
You don’t need to brag,
as a nameThe African book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jalen Roseb. 1973USAmerican basketball player (born 1973)
- Jalen Reynoldsb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Jalen Brunsonb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Jalen McDanielsb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jalen Hurtsb. 1998USAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jalen Smithb. 2000USAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Jalen Johnsonb. 2001USAmerican basketball player (born December 2001)
- Jalen Suggsb. 2001USAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jalen Williamsb. 2001USAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jalen Greenb. 2002USAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jalen mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jaylen. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jalen a male or female name?
- Jalen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jalen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Jalen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jalen.
- Where is Jalen most common?
- Jalen is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 10.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Jalen?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Jalen?
- In the etymology graph, Jaylen, Jaylin and Jaylon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Jalen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,290 people named Jalen in 2020, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jalenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jalen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.