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Jaiari vs Jairo

American parents have registered 11,483 Jairos since 1880, against 42 Jaiaris. Jairo is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaiari against Jairo, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaiari Jairo

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

Jairo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Jaiari had 29 and Jairo had 247.

Side by side

  Jaiari Jairo
Total US births 4211,483
Most in one year 29473
Babies in 2025 under 5251
Estimated living today 4011,000
Median age today 619
Peak year 20192008
Best rank 3,716th boys556th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked935th
First recorded 20191950
Girls / boys 0 / 420 / 11,483

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 Jairos alive today are over 19; half the Jaiaris are over 6. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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