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Jaeden vs Jaelah

American parents have registered 6,163 Jaedens since 1880, against 914 Jaelahs. Jaeden is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaeden against Jaelah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaeden Jaelah

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

Jaeden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Jaeden had 12 and Jaelah had 5.

Side by side

  Jaeden Jaelah
Total US births 6,163914
Most in one year 49962
Babies in 2025 377
Estimated living today 6,100910
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20072011
Best rank 597th boys2,796th girls
Rank in 2025 3,181st11,932nd
First recorded 19941994
Girls / boys 881 / 5,282914 / 0

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 Jaedens alive today are over 18; half the Jaelahs are over 14. That is 4 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.

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