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Jax vs Jaxten

American parents have registered 25,309 Jaxes since 1880, against 627 Jaxtens. Jax is still ahead, with 974 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jax against Jaxten, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jax Jaxten

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

Jax has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Jax had 262 and Jaxten had 10.

Side by side

  Jax Jaxten
Total US births 25,309627
Most in one year 1,90356
Babies in 2025 97419
Estimated living today 25,000620
Median age today 98
Peak year 20152019
Best rank 215th boys2,394th boys
Rank in 2025 342nd5,045th
First recorded 19952006
Girls / boys 224 / 25,0850 / 627

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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