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Jayce vs Jaylin

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 19,608 Jaylins. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jaylin

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 65 years in which either name was published, Jayce for 48 years and Jaylin for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jayce Jaylin
Total US births 47,16219,608
Most in one year 3,1911,140
Babies in 2025 2,230228
Estimated living today 47,00019,000
Median age today 918
Peak year 20152002
Best rank 132nd boys387th boys
Rank in 2025 167th1,547th
First recorded 19291982
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4239,209 / 10,399

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 Jaylins alive today are over 18; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 9 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 Jaylin
England and Wales 8123

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: Jayce and Jaylin.