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Jaecion vs Jaelynn

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 143 Jaecions. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaecion Jaelynn

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

Jaelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Jaecion had 8 and Jaelynn had 143.

Side by side

  Jaecion Jaelynn
Total US births 1439,508
Most in one year 23605
Babies in 2025 under 5121
Estimated living today 1409,400
Median age today 914
Peak year 20132010
Best rank 4,180th boys503rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,692nd
First recorded 20131984
Girls / boys 0 / 1439,354 / 154

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 Jaelynns alive today are over 14; half the Jaecions are over 9. That is 5 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: Jaecion and Jaelynn.