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Jasiah vs Jasmen

American parents have registered 10,245 Jasiahs since 1880, against 618 Jasmens. Jasiah is still ahead, with 616 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jasiah Jasmen

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 45 years in which either name was published, Jasiah for 28 years and Jasmen for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jasiah Jasmen
Total US births 10,245618
Most in one year 67042
Babies in 2025 616under 5
Estimated living today 10,000610
Median age today 830
Peak year 20221993
Best rank 467th boys2,825th girls
Rank in 2025 498thunranked
First recorded 19911979
Girls / boys 648 / 9,597607 / 11

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 Jasmens alive today are over 30; half the Jasiahs are over 8. That is 22 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: Jasiah and Jasmen.