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Jamie vs Jamille

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 716 Jamilles. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamie Jamille

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 2006, when Jamie had 1,835 and Jamille had 21.

Side by side

  Jamie Jamille
Total US births 359,590716
Most in one year 17,16030
Babies in 2025 824under 5
Estimated living today 335,000690
Median age today 4338
Peak year 19771991
Best rank 18th girls4,650th girls
Rank in 2025 857thunranked
First recorded 18841963
Girls / boys 270,936 / 88,654456 / 260

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 Jamilles are over 38. That is 5 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 Jamille.