Jailin vs Jairo
American parents have registered 11,483 Jairos since 1880, against 522 Jailins. Jairo is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jailin 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 2004, when Jailin had 79 and Jairo had 350.
Side by side
| Jailin | Jairo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 522 | 11,483 |
| Most in one year | 79 | 473 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 251 |
| Estimated living today | 520 | 11,000 |
| Median age today | 21 | 19 |
| Peak year | 2004 | 2008 |
| Best rank | 3,224th girls | 556th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 935th |
| First recorded | 1995 | 1950 |
| Girls / boys | 315 / 207 | 0 / 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 Jailins alive today are over 21; half the Jairos are over 19. That is 2 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 Jairo.