Jayden — #59 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jayden

The Social Security Administration has registered 249,245 babies named Jayden between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jayden currently holds the #59 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 17,313 babies received it in a single year. Jayden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22,001 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jayden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 126,064 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jayden shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36,488 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jayden in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jayden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 249,245 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.