Jaidyn
Jaidyn is given to both girls and boys: 39 girls and 39 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,797 among girls’ names and #3,101 among boys’, #4,208 among all names counting both); 9,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Jaidyn every year since 2014.
An estimated 9,160 Americans named Jaidyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaidyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaidyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaidyn 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 Jaidyn?
#3,797 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaidyn fell from #2,049 in 2015 to #3,797 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.8 to 24.3 per million.
820 babies in 2008, the peak
Jaidyn peaked in 2008, when 820 babies were given it (549 girls, #559 among girls’ names). The 78 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,797 | 39 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,719 | 46 | #2,808 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,501 | 47 | #2,748 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,318 | 58 | #2,419 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,666 | 77 | #1,946 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,107 | 70 | #2,033 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,492 | 94 | #1,694 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,370 | 125 | #1,402 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,955 | 124 | #1,409 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,101 | 113 | #1,505 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,049 | 98 | #1,629 |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,521 | 145 | #1,247 |
| 2013 | 162 | #1,412 | 140 | #1,254 |
| 2012 | 227 | #1,090 | 204 | #981 |
| 2011 | 289 | #902 | 239 | #875 |
| 2010 | 349 | #789 | 243 | #867 |
| 2009 | 464 | #642 | 273 | #813 |
| 2008 | 549 | #559 | 271 | #809 |
| 2007 | 539 | #562 | 249 | #850 |
| 2006 | 497 | #586 | 158 | #1,109 |
| 2005 | 467 | #609 | 186 | #942 |
| 2004 | 372 | #715 | 220 | #817 |
| 2003 | 288 | #847 | 77 | #1,634 |
| 2002 | 275 | #841 | 53 | #2,053 |
| 2001 | 217 | #989 | 46 | #2,224 |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,481 | 29 | #3,021 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,963 | 14 | #4,867 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,775 | 10 | #6,011 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,267 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,937 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,522 | 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 Jaidyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,247 Americans recorded as Jaidyn, 63% are girls and 37% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaidyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaidyn, and how old are they?
9,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,247 Americans ever recorded as Jaidyn. The median Jaidyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 7,062 people named Jaidyn (4,739 women and girls, 2,323 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,658 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 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,110 |
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 Jaidyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaidyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #3,518 | 0.9× |
| California | 7 | #2,608 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jaidyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaidyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1995 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 girls’ 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 Jaidyn 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 31,357 babies since 1880, Jaidyn is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 149 babies (52%), the most given that year.
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 Jaidyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jaedyn | 4,709 |
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 Jaidyn and names like it
- Compare Jaidyn and JadynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaidyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaidyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jaidyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jaidyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaidyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.