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Jaelyn vs Jaevon

American parents have registered 15,601 Jaelyns since 1880, against 520 Jaevons. Jaelyn is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaelyn Jaevon

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 1991, when Jaelyn had 14 and Jaevon had 5.

Side by side

  Jaelyn Jaevon
Total US births 15,601520
Most in one year 1,09033
Babies in 2025 1178
Estimated living today 15,000510
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20082006
Best rank 332nd girls3,227th boys
Rank in 2025 1,962nd8,910th
First recorded 19631991
Girls / boys 14,201 / 1,4000 / 520

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 Jaevons alive today are over 18; half the Jaelyns are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jaelyn Jaevon
England and Wales 243

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: Jaelyn and Jaevon.