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Jaida vs Jailin

American parents have registered 9,659 Jaidas since 1880, against 522 Jailins. Jaida is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaida against Jailin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaida Jailin

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

Jaida has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Jaida had 467 and Jailin had 79.

Side by side

  Jaida Jailin
Total US births 9,659522
Most in one year 59879
Babies in 2025 47under 5
Estimated living today 9,600520
Median age today 1721
Peak year 20082004
Best rank 517th girls3,224th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296thunranked
First recorded 19771995
Girls / boys 9,659 / 0315 / 207

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 Jailins alive today are over 21; half the Jaidas are over 17. That is 4 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: Jaida and Jailin.