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Jax vs Jaxin

American parents have registered 25,309 Jaxes since 1880, against 980 Jaxins. Jax is still ahead, with 974 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jax against Jaxin, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jax Jaxin

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

Jax has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jax had 90 and Jaxin had 12.

Side by side

  Jax Jaxin
Total US births 25,309980
Most in one year 1,90389
Babies in 2025 97415
Estimated living today 25,000970
Median age today 911
Peak year 20152014
Best rank 215th boys1,701st boys
Rank in 2025 342nd5,861st
First recorded 19952002
Girls / boys 224 / 25,0855 / 975

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 Jaxins alive today are over 11; half the Jaxes are over 9. That is 2 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: Jax and Jaxin.