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Jaedan vs Jaelynn

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 571 Jaedans. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaedan Jaelynn

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

Jaelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Jaedan had 60 and Jaelynn had 129.

Side by side

  Jaedan Jaelynn
Total US births 5719,508
Most in one year 60605
Babies in 2025 under 5121
Estimated living today 5609,400
Median age today 1914
Peak year 20002010
Best rank 2,175th boys503rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,692nd
First recorded 19971984
Girls / boys 83 / 4889,354 / 154

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 Jaedans alive today are over 19; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 5 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 Jaedan Jaelynn
England and Wales 163

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: Jaedan and Jaelynn.