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Jaedyn vs Jaelani

American parents have registered 4,709 Jaedyns since 1880, against 610 Jaelanis. But in 2025 it was Jaelani that was commoner, 82 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaedyn Jaelani

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 32 years in which either name was published, Jaedyn for 28 years and Jaelani for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaedyn Jaelani
Total US births 4,709610
Most in one year 401103
Babies in 2025 2182
Estimated living today 4,700610
Median age today 173
Peak year 20072024
Best rank 1,157th girls1,925th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th2,239th
First recorded 19942006
Girls / boys 2,599 / 2,110610 / 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 Jaelanis are over 3. That is 14 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 Jaelani.