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Jae vs Jaedon

American parents have registered 2,980 Jaes since 1880, against 2,178 Jaedons. Jae is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jae against Jaedon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jae Jaedon

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 96 years in which either name was published, Jae for 80 years and Jaedon for 16 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jae Jaedon
Total US births 2,9802,178
Most in one year 71164
Babies in 2025 609
Estimated living today 2,7002,100
Median age today 2419
Peak year 20202005
Best rank 2,759th boys1,026th boys
Rank in 2025 2,941st8,243rd
First recorded 19181993
Girls / boys 1,280 / 1,70033 / 2,145

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 Jaes alive today are over 24; half the Jaedons are over 19. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Jae Jaedon
England and Wales 365128

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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Related comparisons

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