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Jaydin vs Jaylen

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 4,292 Jaydins. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaydin 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 Jaydin had 416 and Jaylen had 2,406.

Side by side

  Jaydin Jaylen
Total US births 4,29245,951
Most in one year 4262,546
Babies in 2025 29942
Estimated living today 4,20045,000
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20082009
Best rank 746th boys175th boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th361st
First recorded 19941991
Girls / boys 1,135 / 3,1575,047 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jaydin Jaylen
Scotland 33

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: Jaydin and Jaylen.