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Jamie vs Jamira

American parents have registered 359,590 Jamies since 1880, against 1,226 Jamiras. Jamie is still ahead, with 824 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamie Jamira

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 Jamira had 46.

Side by side

  Jamie Jamira
Total US births 359,5901,226
Most in one year 17,16065
Babies in 2025 82417
Estimated living today 335,0001,200
Median age today 4320
Peak year 19772006
Best rank 18th girls2,728th girls
Rank in 2025 857th6,546th
First recorded 18841977
Girls / boys 270,936 / 88,6541,226 / 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 Jamiras are over 20. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jamie Jamira
Switzerland 1,84035

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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