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Jaidyn vs Jailene

American parents have registered 9,247 Jaidyns since 1880, against 3,148 Jailenes. Jaidyn is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaidyn against Jailene, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaidyn Jailene

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 34 years in which either name was published, Jaidyn for 25 years and Jailene for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaidyn Jailene
Total US births 9,2473,148
Most in one year 820513
Babies in 2025 7822
Estimated living today 9,2003,100
Median age today 1726
Peak year 20081999
Best rank 559th girls506th girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th5,554th
First recorded 19951992
Girls / boys 5,799 / 3,4483,148 / 0

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 Jailenes alive today are over 26; half the Jaidyns are over 17. That is 9 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: Jaidyn and Jailene.