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Jamison vs Jamond

American parents have registered 22,740 Jamisons since 1880, against 555 Jamonds. Jamison is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jamison Jamond

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 1979, when Jamison had 234 and Jamond had 19.

Side by side

  Jamison Jamond
Total US births 22,740555
Most in one year 75625
Babies in 2025 336under 5
Estimated living today 22,000540
Median age today 1828
Peak year 20171998
Best rank 436th boys3,092nd boys
Rank in 2025 785thunranked
First recorded 19311974
Girls / boys 1,944 / 20,7960 / 555

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 Jamonds alive today are over 28; half the Jamisons are over 18. That is 10 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: Jamison and Jamond.