Jaydan

Where Jaydan comes from

The dictionaries list Jaydan as a given name — a unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1992
    First appearance
    #8,435 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #856
    249 babies named Jaydan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,792.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jadon
Namesakes

No widely known Jaydan 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.