Jadon
Jadon was given to 153 boys in 2025, #1,282 among boys’ names; 10,779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,600 Americans named Jadon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jadon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jadon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jadon is “a male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage of Biblical origin. Taken into regular use the 1990s, apparently seen as a variant of the more popular Jayden.” Its etymology gives the sense “Jadon” (יָדוֹן).
Also “a unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden”
From Hebrew יָדוֹן (yadón, “Jadon”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jadon?
#1,282 among boys’ names, 2025
Jadon fell from #915 in 2015 to #1,282 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.09 per 1,000.
769 babies in 2006, the peak
Jadon peaked in 2006, when 769 babies were given it (756 boys, #398 among boys’ names). The 153 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,282 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,390 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,276 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,451 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,327 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,457 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,512 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,167 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,047 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 235 | #915 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 260 | #854 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 252 | #847 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 319 | #730 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 389 | #616 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 445 | #572 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 535 | #505 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 586 | #471 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 685 | #423 | 0.33 |
| 2006 | 756 | #398 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 637 | #421 | 0.32 |
| 2004 | 613 | #426 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 702 | #372 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 604 | #415 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 510 | #466 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 434 | #518 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 322 | #594 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 212 | #754 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,031 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,132 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,417 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,022 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,175 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,374 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,331 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,458 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,722 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jadon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,779 Americans recorded as Jadon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 153 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jadon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jadon, and how old are they?
10,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,779 Americans ever recorded as Jadon. The median Jadon alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 9,406 people named Jadon (209 women and girls, 9,197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,869 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 449 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Jadon born?
The states with the most babies named Jadon are California, Texas and Georgia, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,133 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,230 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 9 | #945 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,397 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #965 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 7 | #918 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 6 | #893 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5 | #1,869 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,091 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 5 | #918 | 0.8× |
Where Jadon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jadon is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1973 it was given 1.1 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 Jadon 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, Jadon is the fourth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 6,294 babies (2.4%), again the fourth 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 Jadon
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 Jadon and names like it
- Compare Jadon and JaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJadon peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jadon since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jadon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jadon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.