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Jayden vs Jayron

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 643 Jayrons. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jayron

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 1987, when Jayden had 12 and Jayron had 6.

Side by side

  Jayden Jayron
Total US births 276,060643
Most in one year 19,08337
Babies in 2025 4,7187
Estimated living today 273,000630
Median age today 1418
Peak year 20092010
Best rank 8th boys3,072nd boys
Rank in 2025 70th9,714th
First recorded 19771987
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9890 / 643

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 Jayrons alive today are over 18; half the Jaydens are over 14. That is 4 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 Jayron
England and Wales 29,6159
France 5,990130

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 Jayron.