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Jayce vs Jayron

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 643 Jayrons. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jayron

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

Jayce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1929 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Jayce had 84 and Jayron had 14.

Side by side

  Jayce Jayron
Total US births 47,162643
Most in one year 3,19137
Babies in 2025 2,2307
Estimated living today 47,000630
Median age today 918
Peak year 20152010
Best rank 132nd boys3,072nd boys
Rank in 2025 167th9,714th
First recorded 19291987
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4230 / 643

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 Jayrons 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jayce Jayron
England and Wales 8129
France 410130

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 Jayron.