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Jaheim vs Jahsir

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 864 Jahsirs. But in 2025 it was Jahsir that was commoner, 67 babies to 43.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaheim Jahsir

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 26 years in which either name was published, Jaheim for 24 years and Jahsir for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaheim Jahsir
Total US births 4,067864
Most in one year 75767
Babies in 2025 4367
Estimated living today 4,000860
Median age today 219
Peak year 20022025
Best rank 356th boys2,145th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th2,145th
First recorded 20002000
Girls / boys 5 / 4,0620 / 864

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 Jahsirs are over 9. That is 12 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 Jahsir.