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Jahmere vs Jahzara

American parents have registered 2,050 Jahzaras since 1880, against 705 Jahmeres. Jahzara is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahmere against Jahzara, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahmere Jahzara

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 32 years in which either name was published, Jahzara for 23 years and Jahmere for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jahmere Jahzara
Total US births 7052,050
Most in one year 46122
Babies in 2025 1779
Estimated living today 7002,000
Median age today 1511
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 2,663rd boys1,789th girls
Rank in 2025 5,399th2,298th
First recorded 19892002
Girls / boys 0 / 7052,050 / 0

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 Jahmeres alive today are over 15; half the Jahzaras are over 11. That is 4 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: Jahmere and Jahzara.