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Jaedyn vs Jaelah

American parents have registered 4,709 Jaedyns since 1880, against 914 Jaelahs. Jaedyn is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaedyn Jaelah

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

Jaedyn 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 2024, when Jaedyn had 29 and Jaelah had 19.

Side by side

  Jaedyn Jaelah
Total US births 4,709914
Most in one year 40162
Babies in 2025 217
Estimated living today 4,700910
Median age today 1714
Peak year 20072011
Best rank 1,157th girls2,796th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th11,932nd
First recorded 19941994
Girls / boys 2,599 / 2,110914 / 0

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 Jaedyns alive today are over 17; half the Jaelahs are over 14. That is 3 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.

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