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Jaia vs Jaidyn

American parents have registered 9,247 Jaidyns since 1880, against 859 Jaias. Jaidyn is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaia against Jaidyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaia Jaidyn

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 35 years in which either name was published, Jaidyn for 31 years and Jaia for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaia Jaidyn
Total US births 8599,247
Most in one year 36820
Babies in 2025 3178
Estimated living today 8509,200
Median age today 1517
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 4,196th girls559th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th3,780th
First recorded 19891995
Girls / boys 859 / 05,799 / 3,448

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 Jaidyns alive today are over 17; half the Jaias are over 15. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jaia Jaidyn
England and Wales 6672

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: Jaia and Jaidyn.