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Jaxen vs Jaxsen

American parents have registered 5,691 Jaxens since 1880, against 1,948 Jaxsens. Jaxen is still ahead, with 122 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaxen Jaxsen

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

Jaxen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Jaxen had 22 and Jaxsen had 13.

Side by side

  Jaxen Jaxsen
Total US births 5,6911,948
Most in one year 563154
Babies in 2025 12238
Estimated living today 5,6001,900
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20132013
Best rank 493rd boys1,169th boys
Rank in 2025 1,459th3,128th
First recorded 19981998
Girls / boys 44 / 5,6476 / 1,942

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 Jaxen Jaxsen
England and Wales 17810

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: Jaxen and Jaxsen.