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Jayden vs Jayseon

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 73 Jayseons. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jayseon

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

Jayden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Jayden had 13,575 and Jayseon had 22.

Side by side

  Jayden Jayseon
Total US births 276,06073
Most in one year 19,08322
Babies in 2025 4,718under 5
Estimated living today 273,00070
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20092014
Best rank 8th boys4,392nd boys
Rank in 2025 70thunranked
First recorded 19772013
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9890 / 73

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 Jayseons are over 11. That is 3 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: Jayden and Jayseon.