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Jaheem vs Jaheim

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 1,234 Jaheems. Jaheim is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaheem against Jaheim, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaheem Jaheim

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

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Jaheim for 26 years and Jaheem for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaheem Jaheim
Total US births 1,2344,067
Most in one year 182757
Babies in 2025 2043
Estimated living today 1,2004,000
Median age today 2021
Peak year 20022002
Best rank 891st boys356th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th2,884th
First recorded 19882000
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2345 / 4,062

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaheem Jaheim
England and Wales 77352
France 45130

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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