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Jailah vs Jaimie

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 1,252 Jailahs. But in 2025 it was Jailah that was commoner, 18 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jailah against Jaimie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jailah Jaimie

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 77 years in which either name was published, Jaimie for 60 years and Jailah for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jailah Jaimie
Total US births 1,25210,453
Most in one year 72694
Babies in 2025 185
Estimated living today 1,20010,000
Median age today 1538
Peak year 20111987
Best rank 2,511th girls352nd girls
Rank in 2025 6,325th14,942nd
First recorded 19951946
Girls / boys 1,252 / 09,549 / 904

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 Jaimies alive today are over 38; half the Jailahs are over 15. That is 23 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: Jailah and Jaimie.