Humanverse

Jaydien vs Jaylen

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 180 Jaydiens. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaydien against Jaylen, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaydien Jaylen

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

Jaylen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Jaydien had 23 and Jaylen had 2,406.

Side by side

  Jaydien Jaylen
Total US births 18045,951
Most in one year 232,546
Babies in 2025 under 5942
Estimated living today 18045,000
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 4,243rd boys175th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked361st
First recorded 20041991
Girls / boys 0 / 1805,047 / 40,904

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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