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Jada vs Jadelynn

American parents have registered 67,661 Jadas since 1880, against 1,226 Jadelynns. Jada is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jada against Jadelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jada Jadelynn

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

Jada has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1920 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jada had 195 and Jadelynn had 40.

Side by side

  Jada Jadelynn
Total US births 67,6611,226
Most in one year 4,28479
Babies in 2025 19540
Estimated living today 67,0001,200
Median age today 2116
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 76th girls2,419th girls
Rank in 2025 1,200th3,712th
First recorded 19201993
Girls / boys 67,400 / 2611,226 / 0

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 Jadas alive today are over 21; half the Jadelynns are over 16. That is 5 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: Jada and Jadelynn.