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Jaiden

Jaiden is a boy's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 172nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 617th. About 41,000 Jaidens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jaiden boys named Jaiden

Girls and boys called Jaiden

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 8,272 girls and 33,302 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 18 to 454.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
41,574
Estimated living today
41,000
Median age today
15
Peak year
2008
Best rank
172nd
Rank in 2025
617th
First recorded
1991
Girls / boys
8,272 / 33,302

How old the living Jaidens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 41,574 babies given the name since 1991, about 41,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Spelling variant of Jayden.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Jaiden is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jaiden is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), Florida (2.3×), Arizona (1.7×), Georgia (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular boys’ names the year Jaiden peaked:

All the names of 2008

Jaiden elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Jaiden 3,641 171st
France boys Jaïden +1 spelling 185 1,605th
Scotland boys Jaiden 181 231st
England and Wales girls Jaiden 113 1,502nd
Ireland boys Jaiden 65 433rd
Northern Ireland boys Jaiden 52 244th
Belgium boys Jaiden 14 961st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jaiden: rank by region

In 2010, Jaiden was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Jaiden 568 9

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Jaiden among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Jaiden 7 7

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Jaiden against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.