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Jamarie vs Jami

American parents have registered 22,410 Jamis since 1880, against 756 Jamaries. Jami is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamarie 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 72 years and Jamarie for 8 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jamarie Jami
Total US births 75622,410
Most in one year 581,070
Babies in 2025 56
Estimated living today 75021,000
Median age today 1746
Peak year 20091977
Best rank 2,528th boys239th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th13,208th
First recorded 19931946
Girls / boys 113 / 64321,473 / 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 Jamaries 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: Jamarie and Jami.