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Jailen vs Jaimie

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 1,697 Jailens. But in 2025 it was Jailen that was commoner, 9 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jailen 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 55 years and Jailen for 22 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jailen Jaimie
Total US births 1,69710,453
Most in one year 111694
Babies in 2025 95
Estimated living today 1,70010,000
Median age today 1938
Peak year 20031987
Best rank 1,410th boys352nd girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd14,942nd
First recorded 19931946
Girls / boys 299 / 1,3989,549 / 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 Jailens are over 19. That is 19 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 Jailen Jaimie
England and Wales 20422

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: Jailen and Jaimie.