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Jaylen vs Jaymie

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 4,125 Jaymies. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaylen Jaymie

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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Jaymie for 41 years and Jaylen for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaylen Jaymie
Total US births 45,9514,125
Most in one year 2,546113
Babies in 2025 94220
Estimated living today 45,0004,000
Median age today 1634
Peak year 20091991
Best rank 175th boys1,537th girls
Rank in 2025 361st5,917th
First recorded 19911947
Girls / boys 5,047 / 40,9043,661 / 464

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 Jaymies alive today are over 34; half the Jaylens are over 16. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jaylen Jaymie
England and Wales 972280
France 225125
Scotland 319

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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Related comparisons

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