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Jada vs Jaden

American parents have registered 95,059 Jadens since 1880, against 67,661 Jadas. Jaden is still ahead, with 784 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jada against Jaden, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jada Jaden

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

Of the 79 years in which either name was published, Jada for 54 years and Jaden for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jada Jaden
Total US births 67,66195,059
Most in one year 4,2847,256
Babies in 2025 195784
Estimated living today 67,00094,000
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20052007
Best rank 76th girls74th boys
Rank in 2025 1,200th421st
First recorded 19201974
Girls / boys 67,400 / 26113,590 / 81,469

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 Jadens are over 18. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jada Jaden
England and Wales 1,5714,280
France 2802,140
Ireland 34190
Belgium 53168
Scotland 15177
Northern Ireland 580

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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