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Jadelyn vs Jadon

American parents have registered 10,779 Jadons since 1880, against 2,081 Jadelyns. Jadon is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jadelyn 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

Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Jadon for 53 years and Jadelyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jadelyn Jadon
Total US births 2,08110,779
Most in one year 121769
Babies in 2025 44153
Estimated living today 2,10011,000
Median age today 1719
Peak year 20082006
Best rank 1,800th girls398th boys
Rank in 2025 3,459th1,281st
First recorded 19681973
Girls / boys 2,081 / 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 Jadelyns are over 17. 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 Jadelyn Jadon
England and Wales 3664

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: Jadelyn and Jadon.