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Jhene vs Jhersi

American parents have registered 1,799 Jhenes since 1880, against 166 Jhersis. Jhene is still ahead, with 168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jhene against Jhersi, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jhene Jhersi

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

Jhene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jhene had 168 and Jhersi had 55.

Side by side

  Jhene Jhersi
Total US births 1,799166
Most in one year 23355
Babies in 2025 16855
Estimated living today 1,800170
Median age today 41
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 1,075th girls3,342nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,326th3,342nd
First recorded 20022022
Girls / boys 1,799 / 0157 / 9

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 Jhenes alive today are over 4; half the Jhersis are over 1. That is 3 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: Jhene and Jhersi.