Meaning and history
An invented name, it became popular in the United States in the 1990s through basketball player Jalen Rose (born 1973), whose name combines those of his father James and his maternal uncle Leonard.
20062006: 1,591 births, rank #228
2007: 1,282 births, rank #268
2008: 1,054 births, rank #316
2009: 850 births, rank #361
2010: 720 births, rank #394
20112011: 707 births, rank #401
2012: 581 births, rank #470
2013: 544 births, rank #501
2014: 487 births, rank #572
2015: 468 births, rank #590
20162016: 482 births, rank #575
2017: 451 births, rank #599
2018: 504 births, rank #551
2019: 539 births, rank #531
2020: 520 births, rank #547
20212021: 568 births, rank #516
2022: 571 births, rank #519
2023: 726 births, rank #429
2024: 661 births, rank #467
20252025: 711 births, rank #442
Jalen rose from #467 to #443 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2000, with 3,513 births.