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Jahdiel vs Jahir

American parents have registered 2,842 Jahirs since 1880, against 767 Jahdiels. Jahir is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahdiel against Jahir, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahdiel Jahir

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jahir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Jahdiel had 6 and Jahir had 7.

Side by side

  Jahdiel Jahir
Total US births 7672,842
Most in one year 59215
Babies in 2025 2494
Estimated living today 7602,800
Median age today 814
Peak year 20212003
Best rank 2,321st boys809th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th1,728th
First recorded 19951990
Girls / boys 0 / 7670 / 2,842

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jahirs alive today are over 14; half the Jahdiels are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jahdiel and Jahir.