Jaydon

Where Jaydon comes from

The dictionaries list Jaydon as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jadon — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #4,403 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2004
    Jaydon Banel born
    Dutch footballer
  3. 2005
    Jaydon Hibbert born
    Jamaican athlete
  4. 2007
    Peak, #414
    707 babies named Jaydon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #683.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jadon.
  • A unisex given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jayden.
Namesakes
  • Jaydon Hibbert · Jamaican athlete, born 2005
  • Jaydon Banel · Dutch footballer, born 2004

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.