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Jayden vs Jaylani

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 3,939 Jaylanis. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayden against Jaylani, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayden Jaylani

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

Jayden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jayden had 4,718 and Jaylani had 661.

Side by side

  Jayden Jaylani
Total US births 276,0603,939
Most in one year 19,083661
Babies in 2025 4,718661
Estimated living today 273,0003,900
Median age today 143
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 8th boys470th girls
Rank in 2025 70th470th
First recorded 19772002
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9893,843 / 96

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 Jaydens alive today are over 14; half the Jaylanis are over 3. That is 11 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jayden Jaylani
France 5,99015

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: Jayden and Jaylani.