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Jaxson vs Jaxsyn

American parents have registered 68,669 Jaxsons since 1880, against 1,159 Jaxsyns. Jaxson is still ahead, with 2,365 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxson against Jaxsyn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxson Jaxsyn

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

Jaxson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Jaxson had 4,192 and Jaxsyn had 88.

Side by side

  Jaxson Jaxsyn
Total US births 68,6691,159
Most in one year 5,08091
Babies in 2025 2,36538
Estimated living today 68,0001,200
Median age today 98
Peak year 20152015
Best rank 84th boys1,895th boys
Rank in 2025 156th3,658th
First recorded 19912003
Girls / boys 134 / 68,535165 / 994

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.

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