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Jordyn vs Jordynn

American parents have registered 68,060 Jordyns since 1880, against 5,220 Jordynns. Jordyn is still ahead, with 889 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jordyn Jordynn

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

Jordyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jordyn had 3,181 and Jordynn had 429.

Side by side

  Jordyn Jordynn
Total US births 68,0605,220
Most in one year 3,181429
Babies in 2025 88948
Estimated living today 67,0005,200
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 112th girls689th girls
Rank in 2025 371st3,249th
First recorded 19791988
Girls / boys 62,171 / 5,8895,120 / 100

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 Jordyns alive today are over 16; half the Jordynns are over 13. That is 3 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.

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