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Jamier vs Jamison

American parents have registered 22,740 Jamisons since 1880, against 1,331 Jamiers. Jamison is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamier against Jamison, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamier Jamison

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

Jamison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1931 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jamier had 79 and Jamison had 573.

Side by side

  Jamier Jamison
Total US births 1,33122,740
Most in one year 79756
Babies in 2025 26336
Estimated living today 1,30022,000
Median age today 1518
Peak year 20102017
Best rank 1,834th boys436th boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th785th
First recorded 19901931
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3311,944 / 20,796

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 Jamisons alive today are over 18; half the Jamiers are over 15. That is 3 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: Jamier and Jamison.