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Jami vs Jammie

American parents have registered 22,410 Jamis since 1880, against 6,486 Jammies. Jami is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jami Jammie

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 108 years in which either name was published, Jami for 76 years and Jammie for 32 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jami Jammie
Total US births 22,4106,486
Most in one year 1,070365
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 21,0005,800
Median age today 4647
Peak year 19771977
Best rank 239th girls636th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19461915
Girls / boys 21,473 / 9374,046 / 2,440

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.

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: Jami and Jammie.