Jaycen
Jaycen was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,858 among boys’ names; 1,353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Jaycen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaycen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaycen?
#2,858 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaycen fell from #2,219 in 2015 to #2,858 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.8 to 25.8 per million.
85 babies in 2014, the peak
Jaycen peaked in 2014, when 85 boys were given it, #1,772 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,858 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,975 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,750 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,576 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,708 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,599 | 28.4 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,276 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,333 | 31.4 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,200 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,178 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,219 | 31.8 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,772 | 44.3 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,031 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 71 | #1,996 | 37.4 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,066 | 34.2 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,273 | 29.7 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,867 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,648 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,994 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,260 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,659 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,179 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,335 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,240 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,244 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,359 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,870 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,275 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,884 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,735 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,324 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,298 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,530 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,009 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,784 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,421 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,470 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,181 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,819 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,373 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,636 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,539 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,898 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,316 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,050 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaycen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaycen has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaycen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaycen, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,353 Americans ever recorded as Jaycen. The median Jaycen alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 988 people named Jaycen (44 women and girls, 944 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,070 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 736 |
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 Jaycen born?
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 Jaycen 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 20,979 babies since 1880, Jaycen is the third most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 659 babies (6.7%), 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 Jaycen
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 Jaycen and names like it
- Compare Jaycen and JayceonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaycen peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaycen since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Jaycen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaycen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.