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Jazlynn vs Jazz

American parents have registered 8,090 Jazlynns since 1880, against 1,555 Jazzes. Jazlynn is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazlynn against Jazz, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazlynn Jazz

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 43 years in which either name was published, Jazlynn for 31 years and Jazz for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jazlynn Jazz
Total US births 8,0901,555
Most in one year 51063
Babies in 2025 23347
Estimated living today 8,0001,500
Median age today 1320
Peak year 20111994
Best rank 570th girls2,181st boys
Rank in 2025 1,057th3,314th
First recorded 19861983
Girls / boys 8,090 / 0622 / 933

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 Jazzes alive today are over 20; half the Jazlynns are over 13. That is 7 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 Jazlynn Jazz
England and Wales 9245

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: Jazlynn and Jazz.