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Jax vs Jaxyn

American parents have registered 25,309 Jaxes since 1880, against 1,698 Jaxyns. Jax is still ahead, with 974 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jax Jaxyn

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 2004, when Jax had 162 and Jaxyn had 20.

Side by side

  Jax Jaxyn
Total US births 25,3091,698
Most in one year 1,903136
Babies in 2025 97461
Estimated living today 25,0001,700
Median age today 98
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 215th boys1,548th boys
Rank in 2025 342nd2,516th
First recorded 19952001
Girls / boys 224 / 25,085349 / 1,349

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jax Jaxyn
Scotland 7377

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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Related comparisons

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