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Jaheim vs Jahmeir

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 380 Jahmeirs. Jaheim is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaheim Jahmeir

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

Jaheim has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Jaheim had 44 and Jahmeir had 21.

Side by side

  Jaheim Jahmeir
Total US births 4,067380
Most in one year 75721
Babies in 2025 4313
Estimated living today 4,000380
Median age today 2112
Peak year 20022020
Best rank 356th boys4,540th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th6,446th
First recorded 20002001
Girls / boys 5 / 4,0620 / 380

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 Jahmeirs 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.

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