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Jyair vs Jyaire

American parents have registered 695 Jyaires since 1880, against 289 Jyairs. Jyaire is still ahead, with 103 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jyair against Jyaire, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jyair Jyaire

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 30 years in which either name was published, Jyaire for 25 years and Jyair for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jyair Jyaire
Total US births 289695
Most in one year 27103
Babies in 2025 20103
Estimated living today 290690
Median age today 104
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 3,986th boys1,634th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th1,634th
First recorded 19961997
Girls / boys 0 / 2890 / 695

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 Jyairs alive today are over 10; half the Jyaires are over 4. That is 6 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: Jyair and Jyaire.