Jashua vs Jasper
American parents have registered 63,674 Jaspers since 1880, against 1,710 Jashuas. Jasper is still ahead, with 2,845 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jashua Jasper
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
Jasper has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1985, when Jashua had 66 and Jasper had 185.
Side by side
| Jashua | Jasper | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,710 | 63,674 |
| Most in one year | 73 | 3,014 |
| Babies in 2025 | 5 | 2,845 |
| Estimated living today | 1,600 | 50,000 |
| Median age today | 31 | 9 |
| Peak year | 1987 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 1,123rd boys | 122nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 12,008th | 129th |
| First recorded | 1971 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,710 | 1,246 / 62,428 |
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 Jashuas alive today are over 31; half the Jaspers are over 9. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Jashua New York (5.0×), Florida (3.3×), California (3.0×)
- Jasper North Carolina (2.4×), South Carolina (2.0×), Oregon (2.0×)
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: Jashua and Jasper.