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Jamie vs Jamien

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 522 Jamiens. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamie Jamien

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 2017, when Jamie had 804 and Jamien had 17.

Side by side

  Jamie Jamien
Total US births 359,590522
Most in one year 17,16025
Babies in 2025 8245
Estimated living today 335,000510
Median age today 4321
Peak year 19772008
Best rank 18th girls4,044th boys
Rank in 2025 857th12,008th
First recorded 18841977
Girls / boys 270,936 / 88,6545 / 517

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 Jamiens 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 Jamien.