Jehan vs Jehu

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Jehan Jehu

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 75 years in which either name was published, Jehu for 60 years and Jehan for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1914–1975 Jehu ahead
• 1976–1979 Jehan ahead
• 1980 Jehu ahead
• 1981–1989 Jehan ahead
• 1990–1991 Jehu ahead
• 1992 Jehan ahead
• 1993–2017 Jehu ahead
• 2018 Jehan ahead
• 2019–2025 Jehu ahead

Side by side

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 Jehans alive today are over 32; half the Jehus are over 17. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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