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Jairo vs Jaison

American parents have registered 11,483 Jairos since 1880, against 1,785 Jaisons. Jairo is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jairo against Jaison, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jairo Jaison

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 62 years in which either name was published, Jairo for 49 years and Jaison for 13 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jairo Jaison
Total US births 11,4831,785
Most in one year 47359
Babies in 2025 25116
Estimated living today 11,0001,700
Median age today 1924
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 556th boys2,237th boys
Rank in 2025 935th5,608th
First recorded 19501968
Girls / boys 0 / 11,4830 / 1,785

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 Jaisons alive today are over 24; half the Jairos are over 19. That is 5 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 Jairo Jaison
France 170145
England and Wales 451

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: Jairo and Jaison.