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Jaida vs Jaire

American parents have registered 9,659 Jaidas since 1880, against 1,277 Jaires. But in 2025 it was Jaire that was commoner, 135 babies to 47.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaida against Jaire, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaida Jaire

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 48 years in which either name was published, Jaida for 43 years and Jaire for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaida Jaire
Total US births 9,6591,277
Most in one year 598165
Babies in 2025 47135
Estimated living today 9,6001,300
Median age today 174
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 517th girls1,205th boys
Rank in 2025 3,296th1,370th
First recorded 19771995
Girls / boys 9,659 / 035 / 1,242

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 Jaidas alive today are over 17; half the Jaires are over 4. That is 13 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.

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