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Jamie vs Jamileth

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 912 Jamileths. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamie Jamileth

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 2010, when Jamie had 1,183 and Jamileth had 54.

Side by side

  Jamie Jamileth
Total US births 359,590912
Most in one year 17,16057
Babies in 2025 82419
Estimated living today 335,000900
Median age today 4315
Peak year 19772005
Best rank 18th girls2,865th girls
Rank in 2025 857th6,116th
First recorded 18841992
Girls / boys 270,936 / 88,654912 / 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 Jamileths are over 15. That is 28 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: Jamie and Jamileth.