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Jailyn vs Jaime

American parents have registered 121,558 Jaimes since 1880, against 5,886 Jailyns. Jaime is still ahead, with 455 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jailyn against Jaime, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jailyn Jaime

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

Jaime has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Jailyn had 147 and Jaime had 552.

Side by side

  Jailyn Jaime
Total US births 5,886121,558
Most in one year 3199,240
Babies in 2025 84455
Estimated living today 5,800114,000
Median age today 1841
Peak year 20071980
Best rank 966th girls167th boys
Rank in 2025 2,458th657th
First recorded 19821916
Girls / boys 5,105 / 78150,067 / 71,491

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 Jaimes alive today are over 41; half the Jailyns are over 18. 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: Jailyn and Jaime.