Jayden
Jayden was given to 4,653 boys in 2025, #70 among boys’ names; 276,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 273,000 Americans named Jayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayden is “a unisex given name originating as a coinage.” Its etymology gives the sense “J” (initial).
Invented at the end of the 20th century by American parents who wanted to combine the initial “J” with the fashionable sound of Aidan, Braden, Caden and Hayden. It has been unisex from the very beginning because it resembles both Jay and Jade.
/ˈd͡ʒeɪdn̩/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayden?
#70 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayden fell from #20 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.0 to 2.7 per 1,000.
19,083 babies in 2009, the peak
Jayden peaked in 2009, when 19,083 babies were given it (17,316 boys, #8 among boys’ names). The 4,718 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4,653 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 5,153 | #59 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 5,645 | #49 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 6,500 | #46 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6,934 | #41 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7,177 | #37 | 4.2 |
| 2019 | 7,970 | #35 | 4.4 |
| 2018 | 8,626 | #29 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9,594 | #26 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10,158 | #27 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11,583 | #20 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 12,995 | #15 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 14,804 | #9 | 7.8 |
| 2012 | 16,152 | #8 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 17,019 | #4 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 17,203 | #4 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 17,316 | #8 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 17,167 | #11 | 8.4 |
| 2007 | 15,251 | #18 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9,624 | #49 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8,264 | #54 | 4.1 |
| 2004 | 6,927 | #62 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5,547 | #75 | 2.8 |
| 2002 | 3,853 | #101 | 2.0 |
| 2001 | 2,833 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 1,821 | #194 | 0.93 |
| 1999 | 1,231 | #254 | 0.64 |
| 1998 | 621 | #395 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 387 | #522 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 294 | #605 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 239 | #683 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 159 | #847 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,293 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 46 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,991 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,513 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,825 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,264 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,335 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,806 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,307 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,375 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,436 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 276,060 Americans recorded as Jayden, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 65 girls and 4,653 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayden, and how old are they?
273,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 276,060 Americans ever recorded as Jayden. The median Jayden alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 195,732 people named Jayden (19,363 women and girls, 176,369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239,077 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 158,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 114,000 |
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 Jayden born?
The states with the most babies named Jayden are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 647 | #54 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 572 | #66 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 414 | #40 | 1.3× |
| New York | 332 | #46 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 204 | #31 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 175 | #64 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 145 | #74 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 142 | #86 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 141 | #39 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 139 | #86 | 0.8× |
Where Jayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayden is most over-represented in Florida: since 1977 it was given 1.3 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 Jayden 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, Jayden is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 4,718 of their 6,294 babies (75%), again the 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 Jayden
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 Jayden and names like it
- Compare Jayden and JadenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayden peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayden since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.