How Many People Are Named Jayden?
people named Jayden are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,250 people in the US has this name
Based on 276,060 babies named Jayden in Social Security records from 1977 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
19,083 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of JADEN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jayden in English. Counting Jayden and these spellings together, about 428,198 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Jayden, 8% were girls and 92% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Jayden fell from 26.4% in the 1990s to 1.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jayden alive today is about 13 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jayden first appears in the records in 1977 and was given most often in 2009, to 19,083 babies. In 2025, 4,718 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1977 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Jayden reached #4 among boys' names in 2010 to 2011, and was in the top 10 for 5 years, 2009 to 2013. In 2025 it ranked #70.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #70 |
| Best rank | #4 (2010 to 2011) |
| Years in the top 10 | 5 |
| Years in the top 100 | 23 (2003 to 2025) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #15 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jayden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jayden were born in California than in any other state: about 38,965 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jayden was given 1.6 times as often in Rhode Island, 1.4 times in Delaware and 1.4 times in Hawaii.
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