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Jaycee vs Jayden

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 12,712 Jaycees. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaycee 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 72 years in which either name was published, Jaycee for 40 years and Jayden for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaycee Jayden
Total US births 12,712276,060
Most in one year 60619,083
Babies in 2025 2554,718
Estimated living today 13,000273,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 521st girls8th boys
Rank in 2025 1,150th70th
First recorded 19341977
Girls / boys 11,099 / 1,61322,071 / 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.

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 Jaycee Jayden
England and Wales 38629,615
France 555,990

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: Jaycee and Jayden.