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Jahmir vs Jahziel

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 1,267 Jahziels. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmir Jahziel

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 2020, when Jahmir had 163 and Jahziel had 93.

Side by side

  Jahmir Jahziel
Total US births 3,7151,267
Most in one year 366183
Babies in 2025 366166
Estimated living today 3,7001,300
Median age today 84
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 725th boys1,145th boys
Rank in 2025 725th1,217th
First recorded 19931994
Girls / boys 0 / 3,71515 / 1,252

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 Jahmirs alive today are over 8; half the Jahziels are over 4. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jahmir Jahziel
England and Wales 517

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 Jahziel.