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Jahmir vs Jahnae

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 502 Jahnaes. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahmir against Jahnae, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahmir Jahnae

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, Jahmir for 31 years and Jahnae for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jahmir Jahnae
Total US births 3,715502
Most in one year 36625
Babies in 2025 36612
Estimated living today 3,700500
Median age today 818
Peak year 20252010
Best rank 725th boys5,414th girls
Rank in 2025 725th8,362nd
First recorded 19931993
Girls / boys 0 / 3,715502 / 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 Jahnaes alive today are over 18; half the Jahmirs are over 8. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jahmir Jahnae
England and Wales 56

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: Jahmir and Jahnae.