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Jaelyn vs Jaeven

American parents have registered 15,601 Jaelyns since 1880, against 84 Jaevens. Jaelyn is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaelyn against Jaeven, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaelyn Jaeven

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

Jaelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jaelyn had 551 and Jaeven had 17.

Side by side

  Jaelyn Jaeven
Total US births 15,60184
Most in one year 1,09017
Babies in 2025 117under 5
Estimated living today 15,00080
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20082002
Best rank 332nd girls4,502nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,962ndunranked
First recorded 19632002
Girls / boys 14,201 / 1,4000 / 84

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.

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