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Jadah vs Jaden

American parents have registered 95,059 Jadens since 1880, against 1,883 Jadahs. Jaden is still ahead, with 784 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jadah 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

Jaden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Jadah had 5 and Jaden had 11.

Side by side

  Jadah Jaden
Total US births 1,88395,059
Most in one year 1437,256
Babies in 2025 7784
Estimated living today 1,90094,000
Median age today 2018
Peak year 20022007
Best rank 1,351st girls74th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd421st
First recorded 19811974
Girls / boys 1,883 / 013,590 / 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 Jadahs alive today are over 20; half the Jadens are over 18. That is 2 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 Jadah Jaden
England and Wales 144,280
France 102,140

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: Jadah and Jaden.