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Jadah vs Jadon

American parents have registered 10,779 Jadons since 1880, against 1,883 Jadahs. Jadon is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jadah against Jadon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jadah Jadon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jadon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Jadah had 7 and Jadon had 11.

Side by side

  Jadah Jadon
Total US births 1,88310,779
Most in one year 143769
Babies in 2025 7153
Estimated living today 1,90011,000
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20022006
Best rank 1,351st girls398th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd1,281st
First recorded 19811973
Girls / boys 1,883 / 0173 / 10,606

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jadah Jadon
England and Wales 14664
France 1030

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jadah and Jadon.