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Jaycion vs Jayla

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 923 Jaycions. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaycion against Jayla, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaycion Jayla

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

Jayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Jaycion had 150 and Jayla had 1,839.

Side by side

  Jaycion Jayla
Total US births 92346,483
Most in one year 1503,417
Babies in 2025 31569
Estimated living today 92046,000
Median age today 916
Peak year 20132006
Best rank 1,192nd boys99th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rd529th
First recorded 20071968
Girls / boys 0 / 92346,432 / 51

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 Jaylas alive today are over 16; half the Jaycions 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: Jaycion and Jayla.