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Jameria vs Jamie

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 953 Jamerias. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jameria 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 2006, when Jameria had 66 and Jamie had 1,835.

Side by side

  Jameria Jamie
Total US births 953359,590
Most in one year 6617,160
Babies in 2025 11824
Estimated living today 940335,000
Median age today 1943
Peak year 20061977
Best rank 2,701st girls18th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th857th
First recorded 19851884
Girls / boys 953 / 0270,936 / 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 Jamerias are over 19. That is 24 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: Jameria and Jamie.