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Jayden vs Jayvian

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 1,312 Jayvians. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jayvian

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 1998, when Jayden had 860 and Jayvian had 8.

Side by side

  Jayden Jayvian
Total US births 276,0601,312
Most in one year 19,08385
Babies in 2025 4,71831
Estimated living today 273,0001,300
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 8th boys1,730th boys
Rank in 2025 70th3,583rd
First recorded 19771998
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,9890 / 1,312

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 Jayvians are over 12. That is 2 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.

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