girls:
201 births since 1998
#5515 (3rd percentile)
boys:
9k births since 1979
#1245 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1979
#2815 (64th percentile)
The name Jaydon is the #2,815 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,167 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 63.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,245 (72.9% percentile) for all time with 8,966 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,515 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 201 births since 1998.
Jaydon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Jaydon is available in 35 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jaydon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jaydon reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 56.7% percentile (ranked #383) with 319 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 327 births per million (ranked 56.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jaydon ranks #847 for boys (7.0% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 11.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jaydon reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #922) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaydon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jaydon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Jaydon is pronounced as JAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-dohn, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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