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Jaylen vs Jayvyn

American parents have registered 45,951 Jaylens since 1880, against 659 Jayvyns. Jaylen is still ahead, with 942 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaylen 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

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 2013, when Jaylen had 1,385 and Jayvyn had 61.

Side by side

  Jaylen Jayvyn
Total US births 45,951659
Most in one year 2,54661
Babies in 2025 9426
Estimated living today 45,000650
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 175th boys2,165th boys
Rank in 2025 361st10,695th
First recorded 19912003
Girls / boys 5,047 / 40,9040 / 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: Jaylen and Jayvyn.