Humanverse

Jaeden vs Jaekwon

American parents have registered 6,163 Jaedens since 1880, against 154 Jaekwons. Jaeden is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaeden against Jaekwon, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaeden Jaekwon

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

Jaeden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Jaeden had 29 and Jaekwon had 20.

Side by side

  Jaeden Jaekwon
Total US births 6,163154
Most in one year 49920
Babies in 2025 37under 5
Estimated living today 6,100150
Median age today 1823
Peak year 20071996
Best rank 597th boys3,406th boys
Rank in 2025 3,181stunranked
First recorded 19941996
Girls / boys 881 / 5,2820 / 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 Jaekwons alive today are over 23; half the Jaedens are over 18. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaeden and Jaekwon.