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Jomar vs Jometh

American parents have registered 1,951 Jomars since 1880, against 23 Jomeths. Jomar is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jomar against Jometh, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jomar Jometh

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

Jomar has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jomar had 80 and Jometh had 23.

Side by side

  Jomar Jometh
Total US births 1,95123
Most in one year 15323
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 1,90020
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 1,076th boys4,267th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19732008
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9510 / 23

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 Jomars alive today are over 19; half the Jomeths are over 17. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jomar and Jometh.