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Jami vs Jamonte

American parents have registered 22,410 Jamis since 1880, against 773 Jamontes. Jami is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jami Jamonte

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 79 years and Jamonte for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jami Jamonte
Total US births 22,410773
Most in one year 1,07033
Babies in 2025 66
Estimated living today 21,000760
Median age today 4623
Peak year 19771993
Best rank 239th girls2,295th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th10,695th
First recorded 19461981
Girls / boys 21,473 / 9370 / 773

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 Jamontes are over 23. That is 23 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: Jami and Jamonte.