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Jamison vs Jamiya

American parents have registered 22,740 Jamisons since 1880, against 3,359 Jamiyas. Jamison is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamison Jamiya

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 2008, when Jamison had 581 and Jamiya had 268.

Side by side

  Jamison Jamiya
Total US births 22,7403,359
Most in one year 756268
Babies in 2025 33621
Estimated living today 22,0003,300
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20172008
Best rank 436th boys991st girls
Rank in 2025 785th5,722nd
First recorded 19311990
Girls / boys 1,944 / 20,7963,359 / 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.

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: Jamison and Jamiya.