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Jamarian vs Jamie

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 932 Jamarians. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamarian against Jamie, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamarian Jamie

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

Jamie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1884 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jamarian had 61 and Jamie had 1,183.

Side by side

  Jamarian Jamie
Total US births 932359,590
Most in one year 6717,160
Babies in 2025 8824
Estimated living today 920335,000
Median age today 1743
Peak year 20071977
Best rank 2,051st boys18th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th857th
First recorded 19831884
Girls / boys 6 / 926270,936 / 88,654

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 Jamies alive today are over 43; half the Jamarians are over 17. That is 26 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 Jamie.