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Jayce vs Jaylynn

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 9,939 Jaylynns. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jaylynn

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 66 years in which either name was published, Jayce for 64 years and Jaylynn for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jayce Jaylynn
Total US births 47,1629,939
Most in one year 3,191668
Babies in 2025 2,230105
Estimated living today 47,0009,800
Median age today 916
Peak year 20152009
Best rank 132nd boys484th girls
Rank in 2025 167th2,051st
First recorded 19291963
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4239,348 / 591

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 Jaylynns alive today are over 16; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 7 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: Jayce and Jaylynn.