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Jaden vs Jadence

American parents have registered 95,059 Jadens since 1880, against 211 Jadences. Jaden is still ahead, with 784 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaden Jadence

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

Jaden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Jaden had 1,550 and Jadence had 13.

Side by side

  Jaden Jadence
Total US births 95,059211
Most in one year 7,25629
Babies in 2025 784under 5
Estimated living today 94,000210
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 74th boys6,130th girls
Rank in 2025 421stunranked
First recorded 19742004
Girls / boys 13,590 / 81,469175 / 36

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jadens alive today are over 18; half the Jadences are over 15. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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