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Jaiden vs Jairus

American parents have registered 41,574 Jaidens since 1880, against 2,741 Jairuses. Jaiden is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaiden Jairus

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 58 years in which either name was published, Jaiden for 30 years and Jairus for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaiden Jairus
Total US births 41,5742,741
Most in one year 2,93083
Babies in 2025 47250
Estimated living today 41,0002,700
Median age today 1521
Peak year 20082015
Best rank 172nd boys1,804th boys
Rank in 2025 617th2,604th
First recorded 19911933
Girls / boys 8,272 / 33,3020 / 2,741

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 Jairuses alive today are over 21; half the Jaidens are over 15. That is 6 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 Jaiden Jairus
England and Wales 3,75489
France 185 Jaïden20 Jaïrus

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: Jaiden and Jairus.