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Jayden vs Jaywana

American parents have registered 276,060 Jaydens since 1880, against 20 Jaywanas. Jayden is still ahead, with 4,718 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayden Jaywana

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 Jaywana for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jayden Jaywana
Total US births 276,06020
Most in one year 19,08320
Babies in 2025 4,718under 5
Estimated living today 273,00019
Median age today 1447
Peak year 20091978
Best rank 8th boys3,637th girls
Rank in 2025 70thunranked
First recorded 19771978
Girls / boys 22,071 / 253,98920 / 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 Jaywanas alive today are over 47; half the Jaydens are over 14. That is 33 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 Jaywana.