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Jamarian vs Jami

American parents have registered 22,410 Jamis since 1880, against 932 Jamarians. But in 2025 it was Jamarian that was commoner, 8 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamarian against Jami, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamarian Jami

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 80 years in which either name was published, Jami for 69 years and Jamarian for 11 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jamarian Jami
Total US births 93222,410
Most in one year 671,070
Babies in 2025 86
Estimated living today 92021,000
Median age today 1746
Peak year 20071977
Best rank 2,051st boys239th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th13,208th
First recorded 19831946
Girls / boys 6 / 92621,473 / 937

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 Jamis alive today are over 46; half the Jamarians are over 17. That is 29 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: Jamarian and Jami.