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Jayden vs Jaylee

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 8,601 Jaylees. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jaylee

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

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Jayden for 44 years and Jaylee for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jayden Jaylee
Total US births 276,0608,601
Most in one year 19,083513
Babies in 2025 4,718171
Estimated living today 273,0008,500
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20092012
Best rank 8th boys581st girls
Rank in 2025 70th1,299th
First recorded 19771981
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9898,472 / 129

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.

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 Jaylee
England and Wales 29,61558
France 5,99095
Belgium 2,17410

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 Jaylee.