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Jahmir vs Jahniya

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 571 Jahniyas. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmir Jahniya

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

Jahmir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Jahmir had 97 and Jahniya had 57.

Side by side

  Jahmir Jahniya
Total US births 3,715571
Most in one year 36657
Babies in 2025 366under 5
Estimated living today 3,700570
Median age today 816
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 725th boys3,047th girls
Rank in 2025 725thunranked
First recorded 19931997
Girls / boys 0 / 3,715571 / 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 Jahniyas alive today are over 16; half the Jahmirs are over 8. That is 8 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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Related comparisons

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