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Jayce vs Jaymar

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 568 Jaymars. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jaymar

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 63 years and Jaymar for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jayce Jaymar
Total US births 47,162568
Most in one year 3,19127
Babies in 2025 2,23013
Estimated living today 47,000560
Median age today 915
Peak year 20152014
Best rank 132nd boys3,787th boys
Rank in 2025 167th6,446th
First recorded 19291977
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4230 / 568

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 Jaymars alive today are over 15; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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