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Jahmir vs Jahsiah

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 1,015 Jahsiahs. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmir Jahsiah

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 2000, when Jahmir had 37 and Jahsiah had 20.

Side by side

  Jahmir Jahsiah
Total US births 3,7151,015
Most in one year 36669
Babies in 2025 36648
Estimated living today 3,7001,000
Median age today 89
Peak year 20252019
Best rank 725th boys2,081st boys
Rank in 2025 725th2,676th
First recorded 19931996
Girls / boys 0 / 3,7150 / 1,015

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jahmir Jahsiah
England and Wales 571

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 Jahsiah.