Jaiden
Jaiden was given to 454 boys in 2025, #618 among boys’ names; 41,574 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 41,100 Americans named Jaiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaiden is “a unisex given name originating as a coinage, variant of Jayden.”
Spelling variant of Jayden.
/ˈd͡ʒeɪdn̩/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaiden?
#618 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaiden fell from #268 in 2015 to #618 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.71 to 0.27 per 1,000.
2,930 babies in 2008, the peak
Jaiden peaked in 2008, when 2,930 babies were given it (2,338 boys, #172 among boys’ names). The 472 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,414 | 454 | #618 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,705 | 528 | #563 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,797 | 603 | #503 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,853 | 678 | #454 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,834 | 737 | #417 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,075 | 773 | #396 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,816 | 916 | #359 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,628 | 1,087 | #313 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,986 | 1,148 | #305 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,158 | 1,237 | #292 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,901 | 1,364 | #268 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,498 | 1,568 | #236 |
| 2013 | 162 | #1,411 | 1,766 | #213 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,100 | 1,833 | #207 |
| 2011 | 300 | #871 | 2,069 | #187 |
| 2010 | 405 | #708 | 2,209 | #174 |
| 2009 | 541 | #565 | 2,271 | #171 |
| 2008 | 592 | #520 | 2,338 | #172 |
| 2007 | 760 | #431 | 2,119 | #192 |
| 2006 | 682 | #466 | 1,738 | #214 |
| 2005 | 653 | #467 | 1,565 | #224 |
| 2004 | 704 | #430 | 1,274 | #259 |
| 2003 | 727 | #414 | 973 | #308 |
| 2002 | 541 | #508 | 705 | #374 |
| 2001 | 451 | #571 | 494 | #475 |
| 2000 | 313 | #740 | 326 | #603 |
| 1999 | 214 | #966 | 243 | #692 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,313 | 129 | #1,044 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,853 | 41 | #2,144 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,639 | 45 | #1,965 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,132 | 24 | #2,956 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,110 | 25 | #2,884 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,282 | 10 | #5,515 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,333 | 5 | #8,973 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,007 | 7 | #6,822 |
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 Jaiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 41,574 Americans recorded as Jaiden, 20% are girls and 80% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Jaiden every year since 1999. In 2025 it went to 18 girls and 454 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaiden, and how old are they?
41,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 41,574 Americans ever recorded as Jaiden. The median Jaiden alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 31,122 people named Jaiden (7,210 women and girls, 23,912 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,600 |
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 Jaiden born?
The states with the most babies named Jaiden are Texas, California and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 61 | #535 | 0.9× |
| California | 54 | #561 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 46 | #428 | 1.3× |
| New York | 25 | #608 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 23 | #470 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 18 | #537 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #438 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #561 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 14 | #536 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 13 | #616 | 1.0× |
Where Jaiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaiden is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1991 it was given 1.7 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 Jaiden 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, Jaiden is the third most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 472 of their 6,294 babies (7.5%), again the third 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 Jaiden
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 Jaiden and names like it
- Compare Jaiden and JaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaiden peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaiden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jaiden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaiden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.