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Jayce vs Jaynie

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 1,157 Jaynies. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jaynie

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 85 years in which either name was published, Jayce for 51 years and Jaynie for 34 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jayce Jaynie
Total US births 47,1621,157
Most in one year 3,19132
Babies in 2025 2,2308
Estimated living today 47,0001,100
Median age today 930
Peak year 20152011
Best rank 132nd boys4,466th girls
Rank in 2025 167th10,917th
First recorded 19291942
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4231,157 / 0

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 Jaynies alive today are over 30; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jayce Jaynie
England and Wales 81214

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 Jaynie.