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Jailin vs Jaimie

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 522 Jailins. Jaimie is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jailin 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

Jaimie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Jailin had 79 and Jaimie had 89.

Side by side

  Jailin Jaimie
Total US births 52210,453
Most in one year 79694
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 52010,000
Median age today 2138
Peak year 20041987
Best rank 3,224th girls352nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19951946
Girls / boys 315 / 2079,549 / 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 Jailins are over 21. That is 17 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: Jailin and Jaimie.