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Jayceion vs Jaylen

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 383 Jayceions. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayceion against Jaylen, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayceion Jaylen

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

Jaylen 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 2015, when Jayceion had 47 and Jaylen had 1,152.

Side by side

  Jayceion Jaylen
Total US births 38345,951
Most in one year 472,546
Babies in 2025 21942
Estimated living today 38045,000
Median age today 816
Peak year 20142009
Best rank 2,582nd boys175th boys
Rank in 2025 4,707th361st
First recorded 20131991
Girls / boys 0 / 3835,047 / 40,904

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 Jaylens 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 Jaylen.