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Jamal vs Jamez

American parents have registered 33,501 Jamals since 1880, against 647 Jamezes. Jamal is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamal against Jamez, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamal Jamez

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

Jamal has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jamal had 407 and Jamez had 32.

Side by side

  Jamal Jamez
Total US births 33,501647
Most in one year 1,25332
Babies in 2025 1696
Estimated living today 32,000640
Median age today 3219
Peak year 19932010
Best rank 233rd boys3,377th boys
Rank in 2025 1,196th10,695th
First recorded 19461981
Girls / boys 266 / 33,2350 / 647

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 Jamals alive today are over 32; half the Jamezes are over 19. That is 13 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: Jamal and Jamez.