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Jasinto vs Jasper

American parents have registered 63,674 Jaspers since 1880, against 24 Jasintos. Jasper is still ahead, with 2,845 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jasinto against Jasper, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jasinto 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 1975, when Jasinto had 5 and Jasper had 119.

Side by side

  Jasinto Jasper
Total US births 2463,674
Most in one year 83,014
Babies in 2025 under 52,845
Estimated living today 1350,000
Median age today 509
Peak year 19262023
Best rank 3,139th boys122nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked129th
First recorded 19261880
Girls / boys 0 / 241,246 / 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 Jasintos alive today are over 50; half the Jaspers are over 9. That is 41 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: Jasinto and Jasper.