Fun Facts About the Name Jazlynn
- More than 8 thousand babies named Jazlynn: U.S. records list 8,086 babies given the name Jazlynn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Jazlynn Mean?
Jazlynn is a modern American name built from two familiar elements rather than inherited whole from an older language. The first element, Jaz-, comes from Jasmine, the English form of the jasmine flower name; the English word jasmine reached the language through French jasmin, from Arabic yāsamīn, which in turn goes back to Persian. Its literal sense is simply the flowering plant. The second element, -lynn, comes from the given name Lynn, which derives from Welsh llyn, "lake." In names such as Jazlynn, -lynn works as a suffix rather than as a separate name, so the whole has no single established meaning the way an older name does; its parts mean "jasmine" and "lake."
Jazlynn Name History & Origins
The ending -lynn is one of the most productive in modern American girls' names. It began with Lynn, a Welsh-derived name meaning "lake," which was used as a surname before it became a given name in the English-speaking world. By the later 20th century, -lynn and the shorter -lyn were being attached to many new formations, including Kaylynn, Ashlynn, Raelynn, and Brooklyn.
Jaz- has a separate line of development. Jasmine, from the Persian and Arabic word for the jasmine flower, has been used as a girl's name in the English-speaking world for well over a century, and shorter spellings such as Jazmin and Jazmine also became common. Jazlynn, along with spellings such as Jazlyn and Jaslynn, joins the two elements into a single name. It is a late-20th-century American formation rather than the descendant of an older name from another language, and it is not related to the similar-looking Jocelyn, which comes from a Germanic name that entered English through Old French.
How Popular is the Name Jazlynn?
Jazlynn recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2011. Its best rank was #572 in 2011.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,057 | 233 | 0.0145% |
| 2024 | #1,148 | 210 | 0.0130% |
| 2023 | #1,082 | 229 | 0.0143% |
| 2022 | #1,001 | 261 | 0.0159% |
| 2021 | #1,040 | 243 | 0.0148% |
| 2020 | #1,035 | 243 | 0.0150% |
| 2019 | #1,067 | 237 | 0.0141% |
| 2018 | #918 | 292 | 0.0172% |
| 2017 | #936 | 282 | 0.0163% |
| 2016 | #819 | 350 | 0.0198% |
| 2015 | #764 | 370 | 0.0207% |
| 2014 | #748 | 375 | 0.0210% |
| 2013 | #681 | 417 | 0.0238% |
| 2012 | #609 | 470 | 0.0267% |
| 2011 | #572 | 510 | 0.0290% |
| 2010 | #627 | 469 | 0.0264% |
| 2009 | #663 | 441 | 0.0240% |
| 2008 | #725 | 410 | 0.0217% |
| 2007 | #840 | 338 | 0.0176% |
| 2006 | #1,014 | 254 | 0.0134% |
| 2005 | #1,050 | 227 | 0.0123% |
| 2004 | #1,052 | 220 | 0.0120% |
| 2003 | #1,127 | 195 | 0.0107% |
| 2002 | #1,087 | 196 | 0.0109% |
| 2001 | #1,362 | 140 | 0.0078% |
| 2000 | #1,530 | 119 | 0.0066% |
| 1999 | #2,081 | 74 | 0.0042% |
| 1998 | #2,206 | 65 | 0.0037% |
| 1997 | #2,491 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 1996 | #3,052 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 1995 | #3,706 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 1994 | #5,111 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1993 | #5,084 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1992 | #6,130 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1991 | #5,514 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1990 | #11,972 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #8,314 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1988 | #12,585 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #10,033 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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