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Jailynn vs Jaime

American parents have registered 121,558 Jaimes since 1880, against 2,353 Jailynns. Jaime is still ahead, with 455 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jailynn 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 2014, when Jailynn had 102 and Jaime had 693.

Side by side

  Jailynn Jaime
Total US births 2,353121,558
Most in one year 1579,240
Babies in 2025 42455
Estimated living today 2,300114,000
Median age today 1641
Peak year 20071980
Best rank 1,485th girls167th boys
Rank in 2025 3,577th657th
First recorded 19931916
Girls / boys 2,309 / 4450,067 / 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 Jailynns are over 16. That is 25 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: Jailynn and Jaime.