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Jamie vs Jamielynn

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 612 Jamielynns. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamie Jamielynn

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 2013, when Jamie had 906 and Jamielynn had 20.

Side by side

  Jamie Jamielynn
Total US births 359,590612
Most in one year 17,16028
Babies in 2025 8245
Estimated living today 335,000600
Median age today 4321
Peak year 19772008
Best rank 18th girls5,142nd girls
Rank in 2025 857th14,942nd
First recorded 18841976
Girls / boys 270,936 / 88,654612 / 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 Jamies alive today are over 43; half the Jamielynns are over 21. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jamie and Jamielynn.