Jayden is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The first name Jayden is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #21 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Jayden, accounting for approximately 0.60 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 257,887 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jayden. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
The given name Jayden is possibly a variant of the given name Jaden, which can be traced back to the Hebrew name ‘yadown’, meaning ‘grateful’ or ‘he will jugde’. However, it is believed that the name is a modern invention and evolved from the nicknames ‘Jay’ and the ‘den’ sound of names like Braden, Hayden, Jordan and Zayden.
Jayden Bartels (*2004)
She is an aspiring actress who until now has mainly had roles in tv-series. In 2016, she became famous on TikTok (originally musical.ly). She is followed by over eight million people and has published about 5.000 videos.
John Earle Sullivan (*1994)
Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, is a US activist and filmmaker. He is known for participating in protests and demonstrations against police violence and racism.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jayden is one of them. However, Jayden is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,419 men called Jayden who live here are 0,428% of all male residents and push their name up to #55 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Nevada. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 257,887 people with the name Jayden. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jayden on position 149 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With six letters, the name Jayden is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jayden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jayden, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Yoyo
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jayden
Jayden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jayden sounds like this:
