Jaydon
Jaydon was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,218 among boys’ names; 9,302 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,180 Americans named Jaydon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaydon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaydon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaydon is “a male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jadon.”
Also “a unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaydon?
#2,218 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaydon fell from #997 in 2015 to #2,218 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.04 per 1,000.
725 babies in 2007, the peak
Jaydon peaked in 2007, when 725 babies were given it (707 boys, #414 among boys’ names). The 64 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,218 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,245 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,103 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,049 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 88 | #1,795 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,665 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,390 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 152 | #1,225 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,226 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 197 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 205 | #997 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 261 | #852 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 300 | #758 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 346 | #686 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 422 | #592 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 528 | #492 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 693 | #418 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 671 | #434 | 0.33 |
| 2007 | 707 | #414 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 691 | #415 | 0.34 |
| 2005 | 601 | #438 | 0.30 |
| 2004 | 499 | #492 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 527 | #475 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 430 | #524 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 378 | #555 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 245 | #712 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 173 | #872 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,171 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,445 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,966 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,151 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,892 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaydon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,302 Americans recorded as Jaydon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 64 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaydon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaydon, and how old are they?
9,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,302 Americans ever recorded as Jaydon. The median Jaydon alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 7,883 people named Jaydon (237 women and girls, 7,646 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 147 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,850 |
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 Jaydon born?
The states with the most babies named Jaydon are Texas, California and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,821 | 1.1× |
| California | 6 | #2,320 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,650 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,955 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,097 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #832 | 0.7× |
Where Jaydon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaydon is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1979 it was given 1.5 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 Jaydon 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, Jaydon is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 6,294 babies (1.0%), again the fifth 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 Jaydon
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 Jaydon and names like it
- Compare Jaydon and JaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaydon peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaydon since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jaydon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaydon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.