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Jaidan vs Jaiden

American parents have registered 41,574 Jaidens since 1880, against 1,653 Jaidans. Jaiden is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaidan against Jaiden, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaidan Jaiden

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

Jaiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Jaidan had 6 and Jaiden had 40.

Side by side

  Jaidan Jaiden
Total US births 1,65341,574
Most in one year 1362,930
Babies in 2025 9472
Estimated living today 1,60041,000
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 1,736th boys172nd boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd617th
First recorded 19941991
Girls / boys 580 / 1,0738,272 / 33,302

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 Jaidans alive today are over 18; half the Jaidens are over 15. That is 3 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 Jaidan Jaiden
England and Wales 2673,754

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: Jaidan and Jaiden.