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Jayson vs Jayvion

American parents have registered 35,968 Jaysons since 1880, against 3,656 Jayvions. Jayson is still ahead, with 384 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jayson against Jayvion, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jayson Jayvion

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

Jayson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1922 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Jayson had 558 and Jayvion had 163.

Side by side

  Jayson Jayvion
Total US births 35,9683,656
Most in one year 963221
Babies in 2025 38471
Estimated living today 34,0003,600
Median age today 2312
Peak year 20042009
Best rank 319th boys932nd boys
Rank in 2025 700th2,077th
First recorded 19221993
Girls / boys 37 / 35,9310 / 3,656

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 Jaysons alive today are over 23; half the Jayvions are over 12. That is 11 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 Jayson Jayvion
England and Wales 7605

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