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Jayla vs Jayvian

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 1,312 Jayvians. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayla 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

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 2020, when Jayla had 1,074 and Jayvian had 65.

Side by side

  Jayla Jayvian
Total US births 46,4831,312
Most in one year 3,41785
Babies in 2025 56931
Estimated living today 46,0001,300
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20062011
Best rank 99th girls1,730th boys
Rank in 2025 529th3,583rd
First recorded 19681998
Girls / boys 46,432 / 510 / 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 Jaylas alive today are over 16; half the Jayvians are over 12. That is 4 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: Jayla and Jayvian.