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Jadan vs Jadyn

American parents have registered 15,520 Jadyns since 1880, against 1,537 Jadans. Jadyn is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jadan against Jadyn, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jadan Jadyn

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

Jadyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Jadan had 47 and Jadyn had 175.

Side by side

  Jadan Jadyn
Total US births 1,53715,520
Most in one year 1281,610
Babies in 2025 944
Estimated living today 1,50015,000
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20052005
Best rank 1,471st boys249th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd4,758th
First recorded 19941981
Girls / boys 343 / 1,19411,853 / 3,667

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.

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 Jadan Jadyn
England and Wales 87138

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: Jadan and Jadyn.