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Jhoan vs Jhoana

American parents have registered 657 Jhoans since 1880, against 622 Jhoanas. Jhoan is still ahead, with 51 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jhoan against Jhoana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jhoan Jhoana

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 39 years in which either name was published, Jhoana for 24 years and Jhoan for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jhoan Jhoana
Total US births 657622
Most in one year 7646
Babies in 2025 517
Estimated living today 650620
Median age today 820
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 1,999th boys3,469th girls
Rank in 2025 2,572nd11,932nd
First recorded 19961981
Girls / boys 0 / 657622 / 0

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 Jhoanas alive today are over 20; half the Jhoans are over 8. That is 12 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: Jhoan and Jhoana.