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Jayden vs Jaymeson

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 755 Jaymesons. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jaymeson

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 45 years in which either name was published, Jayden for 44 years and Jaymeson for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jayden Jaymeson
Total US births 276,060755
Most in one year 19,08349
Babies in 2025 4,71813
Estimated living today 273,000750
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20092018
Best rank 8th boys2,748th boys
Rank in 2025 70th6,446th
First recorded 19771985
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,98928 / 727

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 Jaymesons are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jayden and Jaymeson.