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Jase vs Jashanti

American parents have registered 24,037 Jases since 1880, against 153 Jashantis. Jase is still ahead, with 380 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jase against Jashanti, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jase Jashanti

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

Jase has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jase had 171 and Jashanti had 63.

Side by side

  Jase Jashanti
Total US births 24,037153
Most in one year 4,57863
Babies in 2025 380under 5
Estimated living today 24,000150
Median age today 1122
Peak year 20132002
Best rank 89th boys2,497th girls
Rank in 2025 717thunranked
First recorded 19672002
Girls / boys 132 / 23,905153 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jashantis alive today are over 22; half the Jases are over 11. That is 11 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: Jase and Jashanti.