Humanverse

Jayce vs Jaydee

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 1,158 Jaydees. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayce against Jaydee, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayce Jaydee

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

Of the 68 years in which either name was published, Jayce for 62 years and Jaydee for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jayce Jaydee
Total US births 47,1621,158
Most in one year 3,19151
Babies in 2025 2,23019
Estimated living today 47,0001,100
Median age today 917
Peak year 20152008
Best rank 132nd boys4,179th girls
Rank in 2025 167th11,932nd
First recorded 19291963
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,423603 / 555

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 Jaydees alive today are over 17; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 8 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 Jayce Jaydee
England and Wales 81292

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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