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Jahseh vs Jahzara

American parents have registered 2,050 Jahzaras since 1880, against 1,006 Jahsehs. But in 2025 it was Jahseh that was commoner, 155 babies to 79.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahseh against Jahzara, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahseh Jahzara

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 24 years in which either name was published, Jahzara for 18 years and Jahseh for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jahseh Jahzara
Total US births 1,0062,050
Most in one year 189122
Babies in 2025 15579
Estimated living today 1,0002,000
Median age today 211
Peak year 20232008
Best rank 1,118th boys1,789th girls
Rank in 2025 1,267th2,298th
First recorded 20182002
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0062,050 / 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 Jahzaras alive today are over 11; half the Jahsehs are over 2. That is 9 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 Jahseh Jahzara
England and Wales 3105

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: Jahseh and Jahzara.