Jadden — boys' name
306 babies named Jadden in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
73% of everyone ever named Jadden was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Jadden in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jadden
The Social Security Administration has registered 306 babies named Jadden between 1998 and 2016, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jadden currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Jadden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jadden performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jadden shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jadden in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jadden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 306 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jadden at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jadden popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1998
- Peak year (2003)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
306 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 29 births in a single year.
Jadden popularity over time — girls
28 total births recorded since 2001 (Jadden as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Jadden accounts for 8% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jadden by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 223 births that decade — 73% of Jadden's all-time total
Jadden decade highlights
- Peak decade 223 births
- Runner-up 68 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jadden's strongest decade
223 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 73% of all-time use.
Jadden by state
Where Jadden concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 2.3% |
| #2 | New York | | 5 | 1.6% |
7 of 306 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.3% of nationwide
- New York 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.