Jaidon
Masculine
Jaidon is given to both — 1,423 boys and 65 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
There is a Jadon in the Bible. He appears once, in the third chapter of Nehemiah, repairing a section of the Jerusalem wall, and his presence means the -adon family has one genuine ancient member that everything else in it is only rhyming with.
How old is the name Jaidon?
Jaidon first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Jaidon alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,400 people named Jaidon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaidon most popular?
Jaidon peaked in 2008, reaching #1294 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 5,509 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yadon to Jaidon
The story of Jaidon
The -aden family is the largest rhyme group in modern American naming, and like most such groups it contains a small number of genuine names and a large number of rhymes: Aidan is Irish, Hayden is an English place name, Jadon is biblical, and Braden is an Irish surname, while Caden, Zaden and Jaidon are built on their sound. What makes Jaidon interesting is that it sits close enough to the biblical Jadon to be read as it, which gives the name a scriptural anchor its construction does not really support. American records show it rising through the 2000s and peaking in 2008, at the very crest of the whole family.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The biblical Jadon, Hebrew Yadon, is generally connected to a root meaning to judge or to thank, and even that is uncertain from a single occurrence. Whether the modern Jaidon descends from him or is built from the Jay- opening and the -don ending, as almost every other member of its family is, cannot be settled. The prefix and the ending carry no meaning of their own.
How the name formed
- Yadon
- Jadon
- Jaidon
Related forms: Jadon · Jaydon · Yadon
Pronouncing Jaidon
JAY-dun
Two syllables with the stress at the front and the second reduced. Jaidon, Jaydon and Jadon are identical aloud.
Nicknames for Jaidon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most boys named
- 2008134 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1294reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +33.3%12 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jaidon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jadon in English — related form
- Jaydon in English — spelling variant
- Yadon in Hebrew — transliteration
Jaidons among us
people named Jaidon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Jaidon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaidon
- #6803
- Jaidon on the 2025 chart
- #852
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaidon went to 12 boys in 2025, but Jaydon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 76, which makes it the 852nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,951 places above the chart.
- Jaydon64
- Jaidon12
About 1 boy in 22,475 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 142,340 for Jaidon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carrington test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaidon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carrington climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carrington's path sketches the road Jaidon is walking now.
Jaidon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jaidon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaidon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuine biblical name sits close enough to be claimed as an ancestor.
- Jay works alone at any age and in any register.
- Completely familiar to every American ear.
- Jayden and Jaden are far more common and will be written instead.
- The rhyme family dates the name closely to the 2000s.
- The biblical Jadon appears once, with no story attached.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaidons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Jaidon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaidon?
- Jaidon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jaydon is the more common one — 64 births in 2025 against 12 for Jaidon.
- How popular is the name Jaidon in 2025?
- Jaidon ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaidon?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaidon — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaidon with classmates?
- Jaidon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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