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Jaimie vs Jaiya

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 789 Jaiyas. But in 2025 it was Jaiya that was commoner, 29 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaimie Jaiya

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 64 years and Jaiya for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jaimie Jaiya
Total US births 10,453789
Most in one year 69445
Babies in 2025 529
Estimated living today 10,000780
Median age today 3813
Peak year 19872010
Best rank 352nd girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd4,661st
First recorded 19461996
Girls / boys 9,549 / 904789 / 0

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 Jaiyas are over 13. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaimie Jaiya
England and Wales 422188

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: Jaimie and Jaiya.