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Jasai vs Jasiah

American parents have registered 10,245 Jasiahs since 1880, against 1,660 Jasais. But in 2025 it was Jasai that was commoner, 727 babies to 616.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jasai Jasiah

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

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Jasiah for 32 years and Jasai for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jasai Jasiah
Total US births 1,66010,245
Most in one year 727670
Babies in 2025 727616
Estimated living today 1,70010,000
Median age today 18
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 439th boys467th boys
Rank in 2025 439th498th
First recorded 20021991
Girls / boys 13 / 1,647648 / 9,597

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 Jasiahs alive today are over 8; half the Jasais are over 1. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jasai Jasiah
England and Wales 22108

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jasai and Jasiah.