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Jaedon vs Jaelyn

American parents have registered 15,601 Jaelyns since 1880, against 2,178 Jaedons. Jaelyn is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaedon against Jaelyn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaedon Jaelyn

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

Jaelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Jaedon had 161 and Jaelyn had 584.

Side by side

  Jaedon Jaelyn
Total US births 2,17815,601
Most in one year 1641,090
Babies in 2025 9117
Estimated living today 2,10015,000
Median age today 1916
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 1,026th boys332nd girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd1,962nd
First recorded 19931963
Girls / boys 33 / 2,14514,201 / 1,400

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 Jaedons alive today are over 19; half the Jaelyns are over 16. That is 3 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 Jaedon Jaelyn
England and Wales 12824

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: Jaedon and Jaelyn.