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Majd vs Majesty

American parents have registered 3,299 Majestys since 1880, against 625 Majds. Majesty is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Majd against Majesty, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Majd Majesty

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 36 years in which either name was published, Majesty for 29 years and Majd for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Majd Majesty
Total US births 6253,299
Most in one year 35318
Babies in 2025 29152
Estimated living today 6203,300
Median age today 116
Peak year 20142021
Best rank 3,154th boys1,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,757th1,758th
First recorded 19901993
Girls / boys 10 / 6152,568 / 731

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 Majds alive today are over 11; half the Majestys are over 6. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Majd Majesty
France 47520
England and Wales 9070

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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