Jaden
Jaden was given to 768 boys in 2025, #421 among boys’ names; 95,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 93,800 Americans named Jaden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaden is “a unisex given name originating as a coinage, variant of Jayden.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaden?
#421 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaden fell from #201 in 2015 to #421 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.1 to 0.45 per 1,000.
7,256 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaden peaked in 2007, when 7,256 babies were given it (6,262 boys, #74 among boys’ names). The 784 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,955 | 768 | #421 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,512 | 828 | #394 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,173 | 933 | #352 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,840 | 1,053 | #319 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,441 | 1,089 | #306 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,298 | 1,170 | #290 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,298 | 1,362 | #267 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,530 | 1,506 | #246 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,985 | 1,652 | #229 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,292 | 1,786 | #219 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,302 | 2,018 | #201 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,185 | 2,467 | #173 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,517 | 2,784 | #141 |
| 2012 | 163 | #1,410 | 2,835 | #139 |
| 2011 | 262 | #980 | 3,811 | #100 |
| 2010 | 365 | #756 | 4,523 | #91 |
| 2009 | 560 | #539 | 4,169 | #101 |
| 2008 | 677 | #470 | 5,193 | #88 |
| 2007 | 994 | #335 | 6,262 | #74 |
| 2006 | 1,086 | #303 | 4,947 | #88 |
| 2005 | 1,187 | #282 | 4,849 | #88 |
| 2004 | 1,286 | #248 | 5,151 | #83 |
| 2003 | 1,448 | #226 | 5,182 | #82 |
| 2002 | 1,324 | #241 | 4,651 | #87 |
| 2001 | 1,046 | #302 | 3,353 | #114 |
| 2000 | 752 | #383 | 2,520 | #154 |
| 1999 | 579 | #458 | 1,690 | #202 |
| 1998 | 282 | #763 | 827 | #328 |
| 1997 | 201 | #971 | 484 | #456 |
| 1996 | 188 | #999 | 392 | #518 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,202 | 338 | #553 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,485 | 271 | #629 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,014 | 118 | #1,006 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,583 | 102 | #1,088 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,317 | 51 | #1,629 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,283 | 42 | #1,850 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,130 | 43 | #1,771 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,691 | 30 | #2,101 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,147 | 29 | #2,079 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,598 | 23 | #2,383 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,757 | 28 | #2,038 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,023 | 26 | #2,061 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,360 | 15 | #2,984 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,565 | 15 | #3,023 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,704 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 13 | #3,327 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 20 | #2,414 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,745 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 16 | #2,711 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,624 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 9 | #3,678 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jaden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 95,059 Americans recorded as Jaden, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls and 768 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaden, and how old are they?
93,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 95,059 Americans ever recorded as Jaden. The median Jaden alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 83,104 people named Jaden (12,586 women and girls, 70,518 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88,466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 71,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaden born?
The states with the most babies named Jaden are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 92 | #375 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 90 | #396 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 62 | #318 | 1.2× |
| New York | 53 | #333 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 28 | #381 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #390 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 24 | #348 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 23 | #248 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 22 | #491 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 22 | #370 | 0.9× |
Where Jaden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaden is most over-represented in Utah: since 1974 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 447,057 babies since 1880, Jaden is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 784 of their 6,294 babies (12%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaden and names like it
- Compare Jaden and JaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaden peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.