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Jadalynn vs Jadon

American parents have registered 10,779 Jadons since 1880, against 715 Jadalynns. Jadon is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jadalynn against Jadon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jadalynn Jadon

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

Jadon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Jadalynn had 21 and Jadon had 113.

Side by side

  Jadalynn Jadon
Total US births 71510,779
Most in one year 61769
Babies in 2025 11153
Estimated living today 71011,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 2,930th girls398th boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th1,281st
First recorded 20001973
Girls / boys 715 / 0173 / 10,606

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 Jadons alive today are over 19; half the Jadalynns are over 15. That is 4 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: Jadalynn and Jadon.