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Jaelynn vs Jaeven

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 84 Jaevens. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaelynn Jaeven

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 2002, when Jaelynn had 181 and Jaeven had 17.

Side by side

  Jaelynn Jaeven
Total US births 9,50884
Most in one year 60517
Babies in 2025 121under 5
Estimated living today 9,40080
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20102002
Best rank 503rd girls4,502nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,692ndunranked
First recorded 19842002
Girls / boys 9,354 / 1540 / 84

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 Jaevens alive today are over 16; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 2 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: Jaelynn and Jaeven.