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Jaelynn vs Jaeson

American parents have registered 9,508 Jaelynns since 1880, against 618 Jaesons. Jaelynn is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaelynn Jaeson

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 56 years in which either name was published, Jaelynn for 36 years and Jaeson for 20 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaelynn Jaeson
Total US births 9,508618
Most in one year 60523
Babies in 2025 1217
Estimated living today 9,400600
Median age today 1422
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 503rd girls4,241st boys
Rank in 2025 1,692nd9,714th
First recorded 19841969
Girls / boys 9,354 / 1540 / 618

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 Jaesons alive today are over 22; half the Jaelynns are over 14. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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