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Jamille vs Jamison

American parents have registered 22,740 Jamisons since 1880, against 716 Jamilles. Jamison is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamille 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 1963, when Jamille had 5 and Jamison had 17.

Side by side

  Jamille Jamison
Total US births 71622,740
Most in one year 30756
Babies in 2025 under 5336
Estimated living today 69022,000
Median age today 3818
Peak year 19912017
Best rank 4,650th girls436th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked785th
First recorded 19631931
Girls / boys 456 / 2601,944 / 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 Jamilles alive today are over 38; half the Jamisons are over 18. That is 20 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: Jamille and Jamison.