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Jaxson vs Jaxten

American parents have registered 68,669 Jaxsons since 1880, against 627 Jaxtens. Jaxson is still ahead, with 2,365 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxson against Jaxten, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxson 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

Jaxson 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 2023, when Jaxson had 2,579 and Jaxten had 32.

Side by side

  Jaxson Jaxten
Total US births 68,669627
Most in one year 5,08056
Babies in 2025 2,36519
Estimated living today 68,000620
Median age today 98
Peak year 20152019
Best rank 84th boys2,394th boys
Rank in 2025 156th5,045th
First recorded 19912006
Girls / boys 134 / 68,5350 / 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: Jaxson and Jaxten.