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Jaheim vs Jahmari

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 1,472 Jahmaris. But in 2025 it was Jahmari that was commoner, 115 babies to 43.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaheim Jahmari

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 33 years in which either name was published, Jaheim for 21 years and Jahmari for 12 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaheim Jahmari
Total US births 4,0671,472
Most in one year 757115
Babies in 2025 43115
Estimated living today 4,0001,500
Median age today 2112
Peak year 20022025
Best rank 356th boys1,514th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th1,514th
First recorded 20001992
Girls / boys 5 / 4,0620 / 1,472

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 Jaheims alive today are over 21; half the Jahmaris are over 12. That is 9 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jaheim Jahmari
England and Wales 352149

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: Jaheim and Jahmari.