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Jaiden vs Jailyn

American parents have registered 41,574 Jaidens since 1880, against 5,886 Jailyns. Jaiden is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaiden Jailyn

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 39 years in which either name was published, Jaiden for 31 years and Jailyn for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaiden Jailyn
Total US births 41,5745,886
Most in one year 2,930319
Babies in 2025 47284
Estimated living today 41,0005,800
Median age today 1518
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 172nd boys966th girls
Rank in 2025 617th2,458th
First recorded 19911982
Girls / boys 8,272 / 33,3025,105 / 781

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 Jailyns alive today are over 18; half the Jaidens are over 15. 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.

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