Jadon

Where Jadon comes from

From Hebrew יָדוֹן (yadón, “Jadon”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jadon
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #3,013 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    Peak, #372
    702 babies named Jadon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #730.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage of Biblical origin. Taken into regular use the 1990s, apparently seen as a variant of the more popular Jayden.
  • A unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden
Namesakes

No widely known Jadon turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.