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Jayce vs Jayveon

American parents have registered 47,162 Jayces since 1880, against 1,438 Jayveons. Jayce is still ahead, with 2,230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayce Jayveon

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 2007, when Jayce had 768 and Jayveon had 80.

Side by side

  Jayce Jayveon
Total US births 47,1621,438
Most in one year 3,191108
Babies in 2025 2,23028
Estimated living today 47,0001,400
Median age today 913
Peak year 20152014
Best rank 132nd boys1,492nd boys
Rank in 2025 167th3,848th
First recorded 19291993
Girls / boys 1,739 / 45,4230 / 1,438

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 Jayveons alive today are over 13; half the Jayces are over 9. That is 4 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 Jayveon.