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Jaritza vs Jarvis

American parents have registered 17,843 Jarvises since 1880, against 792 Jaritzas. Jarvis is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaritza Jarvis

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

Jarvis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jaritza had 33 and Jarvis had 151.

Side by side

  Jaritza Jarvis
Total US births 79217,843
Most in one year 62644
Babies in 2025 under 544
Estimated living today 78015,000
Median age today 2336
Peak year 19931989
Best rank 2,152nd girls357th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,833rd
First recorded 19791882
Girls / boys 792 / 0123 / 17,720

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 Jarvises alive today are over 36; half the Jaritzas are over 23. That is 13 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: Jaritza and Jarvis.