Jaidan
Jaidan was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,517 among boys’ names; 1,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Jaidan 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaidan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaidan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaidan is “a male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jadon”
Also “a unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaidan?
#8,517 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaidan fell from #3,317 in 2015 to #8,517 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 5.3 per million.
136 babies in 2005, the peak
Jaidan peaked in 2005, when 136 babies were given it (66 boys, #1,927 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,517 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 16 | #5,754 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 17 | #5,546 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,281 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 15 | #5,870 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,193 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,267 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 20 | #4,821 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,070 | 26 | #4,030 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,088 | 18 | #5,207 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,569 | 34 | #3,317 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,374 | 42 | #2,826 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,246 | 51 | #2,438 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,086 | 53 | #2,395 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,831 | 54 | #2,357 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,034 | 71 | #1,965 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,616 | 82 | #1,815 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,805 | 87 | #1,747 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,182 | 75 | #1,899 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,951 | 68 | #1,980 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,484 | 66 | #1,927 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,759 | 42 | #2,579 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,810 | 56 | #2,039 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,017 | 32 | #2,903 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,580 | 26 | #3,352 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,558 | 25 | #3,356 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,096 | 10 | #6,223 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,726 | 11 | #5,613 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,869 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,369 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,381 | under 5 |
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 Jaidan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,653 Americans recorded as Jaidan, 35% are girls and 65% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Jaidan every year since 2006. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Jaidan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaidan, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,653 Americans ever recorded as Jaidan. The median Jaidan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,266 people named Jaidan (503 women and girls, 763 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 346 |
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 Jaidan born?
The states with the most babies named Jaidan are Texas, California and New York, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 119 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Jaidan 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 444,882 babies since 1880, Jaidan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 6,266 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Jaidan
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 Jaidan and names like it
- Compare Jaidan and JaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaidan peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaidan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaidan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jaidan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaidan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.