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Jayden vs Jaynie

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 1,157 Jaynies. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jaynie

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 83 years in which either name was published, Jaynie for 42 years and Jayden for 41 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jayden Jaynie
Total US births 276,0601,157
Most in one year 19,08332
Babies in 2025 4,7188
Estimated living today 273,0001,100
Median age today 1430
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 8th boys4,466th girls
Rank in 2025 70th10,917th
First recorded 19771942
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9891,157 / 0

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 Jaynies alive today are over 30; half the Jaydens are over 14. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jayden Jaynie
England and Wales 29,61514

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 Jaynie.