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Jaxon vs Jaxsen

American parents have registered 114,055 Jaxons since 1880, against 1,948 Jaxsens. Jaxon is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxon against Jaxsen, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxon 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

Jaxon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Jaxon had 371 and Jaxsen had 13.

Side by side

  Jaxon Jaxsen
Total US births 114,0551,948
Most in one year 8,165154
Babies in 2025 3,08038
Estimated living today 113,0001,900
Median age today 911
Peak year 20162013
Best rank 41st boys1,169th boys
Rank in 2025 115th3,128th
First recorded 19721998
Girls / boys 404 / 113,6516 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaxsens alive today are over 11; half the Jaxons are over 9. That is 2 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 Jaxon Jaxsen
England and Wales 13,66210

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: Jaxon and Jaxsen.