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Xaiden vs Xaiver

American parents have registered 1,468 Xaidens since 1880, against 1,132 Xaivers. Xaiden is still ahead, with 99 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Xaiden against Xaiver, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Xaiden Xaiver

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 42 years in which either name was published, Xaiver for 26 years and Xaiden for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Xaiden Xaiver
Total US births 1,4681,132
Most in one year 11762
Babies in 2025 998
Estimated living today 1,5001,100
Median age today 720
Peak year 20192007
Best rank 1,472nd boys2,164th boys
Rank in 2025 1,668th8,910th
First recorded 20041976
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4680 / 1,132

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 Xaivers alive today are over 20; half the Xaidens are over 7. That is 13 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.

Compare something else

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