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Jai vs Jaiden

American parents have registered 41,574 Jaidens since 1880, against 6,535 Jais. Jaiden is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jai against Jaiden, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jai Jaiden

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 66 years in which either name was published, Jai for 36 years and Jaiden for 30 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jai Jaiden
Total US births 6,53541,574
Most in one year 2342,930
Babies in 2025 141472
Estimated living today 6,40041,000
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20142008
Best rank 1,014th boys172nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,459th617th
First recorded 19571991
Girls / boys 1,375 / 5,1608,272 / 33,302

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.

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 Jai Jaiden
England and Wales 2,8823,754
Scotland 264181
France 20 Jaï185 Jaïden
Northern Ireland 4852
Ireland 2465

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