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Jaycion vs Jaylen

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 923 Jaycions. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaycion Jaylen

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

Jaylen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Jaycion had 150 and Jaylen had 1,385.

Side by side

  Jaycion Jaylen
Total US births 92345,951
Most in one year 1502,546
Babies in 2025 31942
Estimated living today 92045,000
Median age today 916
Peak year 20132009
Best rank 1,192nd boys175th boys
Rank in 2025 3,583rd361st
First recorded 20071991
Girls / boys 0 / 9235,047 / 40,904

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 Jaylens 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 Jaylen.