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Jaeden vs Jaelynn

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 6,163 Jaedens. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaeden 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

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Jaelynn for 28 years and Jaeden for 10 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaeden Jaelynn
Total US births 6,1639,508
Most in one year 499605
Babies in 2025 37121
Estimated living today 6,1009,400
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20072010
Best rank 597th boys503rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,181st1,692nd
First recorded 19941984
Girls / boys 881 / 5,2829,354 / 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 Jaedens alive today are over 18; half the Jaelynns are over 14. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaeden Jaelynn
England and Wales 2943

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: Jaeden and Jaelynn.