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Joni vs Jontae

American parents have registered 29,502 Jonis since 1880, against 1,055 Jontaes. Joni is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joni against Jontae, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joni Jontae

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

Joni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1930 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Joni had 58 and Jontae had 44.

Side by side

  Joni Jontae
Total US births 29,5021,055
Most in one year 1,58445
Babies in 2025 12411
Estimated living today 26,0001,000
Median age today 6026
Peak year 19562007
Best rank 204th girls2,868th boys
Rank in 2025 1,796th7,194th
First recorded 19301976
Girls / boys 28,815 / 687179 / 876

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 Jonis alive today are over 60; half the Jontaes are over 26. That is 34 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: Joni and Jontae.