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James vs Jamya

American parents have registered 5,274,520 Jameses since 1880, against 5,576 Jamyas. James is still ahead, with 12,004 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: James against Jamya, 1880 to 2025 0 25k 50k 75k 100k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

James Jamya

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

James has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when James had 16,166 and Jamya had 435.

Side by side

  James Jamya
Total US births 5,274,5205,576
Most in one year 95,024435
Babies in 2025 12,00428
Estimated living today 2.9 million5,500
Median age today 5818
Peak year 19472005
Best rank 1st boys640th girls
Rank in 2025 6th4,758th
First recorded 18801991
Girls / boys 23,882 / 5,250,6385,576 / 0

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 Jameses alive today are over 58; half the Jamyas are over 18. That is 40 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: James and Jamya.