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Jahmir vs Jahsir

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 864 Jahsirs. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmir 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

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 Jahsir had 39.

Side by side

  Jahmir Jahsir
Total US births 3,715864
Most in one year 36667
Babies in 2025 36667
Estimated living today 3,700860
Median age today 89
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 725th boys2,145th boys
Rank in 2025 725th2,145th
First recorded 19932000
Girls / boys 0 / 3,7150 / 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.

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: Jahmir and Jahsir.