Jaela vs Jaelynn

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Jaela 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

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Jaelynn for 35 years and Jaela for 10 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1979–1983 Jaela ahead
• 1984–1986 Jaelynn ahead
• 1987–1988 Jaela ahead
• 1989–1990 Jaelynn ahead
• 1991 Jaela ahead
• 1992 Jaelynn ahead
• 1993 Jaela ahead
• 1994–1995 Jaelynn ahead
• 1996–1997 Jaela ahead
• 1998–2025 Jaelynn ahead

Side by side

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 Jaelas alive today are over 17; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Jaela Florida (3.0×), Virginia (2.2×), Texas (2.0×)
• Jaelynn Nevada (2.8×), New Mexico (2.5×), Texas (2.1×)

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.

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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