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Jadelyn vs Jaden

American parents have registered 95,059 Jadens since 1880, against 2,081 Jadelyns. Jaden is still ahead, with 784 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jadelyn against Jaden, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jadelyn Jaden

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

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Jaden for 51 years and Jadelyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jadelyn Jaden
Total US births 2,08195,059
Most in one year 1217,256
Babies in 2025 44784
Estimated living today 2,10094,000
Median age today 1718
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 1,800th girls74th boys
Rank in 2025 3,459th421st
First recorded 19681974
Girls / boys 2,081 / 013,590 / 81,469

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 Jadelyn Jaden
England and Wales 34,280

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: Jadelyn and Jaden.