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Jayla vs Jayvyn

American parents have registered 46,483 Jaylas since 1880, against 659 Jayvyns. Jayla is still ahead, with 569 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jayla Jayvyn

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 2013, when Jayla had 1,839 and Jayvyn had 61.

Side by side

  Jayla Jayvyn
Total US births 46,483659
Most in one year 3,41761
Babies in 2025 5696
Estimated living today 46,000650
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20062013
Best rank 99th girls2,165th boys
Rank in 2025 529th10,695th
First recorded 19682003
Girls / boys 46,432 / 510 / 659

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 Jayvyn.