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Jayla vs Jaysean

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 691 Jayseans. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayla against Jaysean, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayla Jaysean

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

Jayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Jayla had 41 and Jaysean had 5.

Side by side

  Jayla Jaysean
Total US births 46,483691
Most in one year 3,41774
Babies in 2025 5698
Estimated living today 46,000680
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20062010
Best rank 99th girls1,913th boys
Rank in 2025 529th8,910th
First recorded 19681989
Girls / boys 46,432 / 510 / 691

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.

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