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Jaxten vs Jaxxon

American parents have registered 3,930 Jaxxons since 1880, against 627 Jaxtens. Jaxxon is still ahead, with 318 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaxten against Jaxxon, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaxten Jaxxon

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

Jaxxon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Jaxten had 5 and Jaxxon had 8.

Side by side

  Jaxten Jaxxon
Total US births 6273,930
Most in one year 56410
Babies in 2025 19318
Estimated living today 6203,900
Median age today 85
Peak year 20192021
Best rank 2,394th boys660th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th793rd
First recorded 20062002
Girls / boys 0 / 6270 / 3,930

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 Jaxtens alive today are over 8; half the Jaxxons are over 5. That is 3 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.

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