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Jayce vs Jayden

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 47,162 Jayces. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayce against Jayden, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayce Jayden

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 65 years in which either name was published, Jayden for 33 years and Jayce for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jayce Jayden
Total US births 47,162276,060
Most in one year 3,19119,083
Babies in 2025 2,2304,718
Estimated living today 47,000273,000
Median age today 914
Peak year 20152009
Best rank 132nd boys8th boys
Rank in 2025 167th70th
First recorded 19291977
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,42322,071 / 253,989

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 Jaydens alive today are over 14; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 5 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 Jayce Jayden
England and Wales 81229,615
France 4105,990
Ireland 1382,468
Scotland 1082,371
Belgium 1342,174
Switzerland 39991
Northern Ireland 31847

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: Jayce and Jayden.