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Jayceion vs Jayla

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 383 Jayceions. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayceion against Jayla, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayceion Jayla

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

Jayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jayceion had 21 and Jayla had 569.

Side by side

  Jayceion Jayla
Total US births 38346,483
Most in one year 473,417
Babies in 2025 21569
Estimated living today 38046,000
Median age today 816
Peak year 20142006
Best rank 2,582nd boys99th girls
Rank in 2025 4,707th529th
First recorded 20131968
Girls / boys 0 / 38346,432 / 51

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 Jaylas alive today are over 16; half the Jayceions are over 8. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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