Boy · Modern American coinage
Jaden
Say it: JAY-dun
Meaning
A modern American name built to rhyme with Aiden and Hayden. Some link it to the biblical Jadon (Nehemiah 3:7), a name of uncertain meaning, but the modern vogue owes little to that.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Rare before the 1990s, it rose quickly around 2000.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 90,157 babies given this name since 1974
- At its height in 2007, about 1 in 332 boys
- 1,183 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Jaiden
Famous bearers
- Jaden Smith, US actor and musician
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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