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Majestic vs Majid

American parents have registered 752 Majids since 1880, against 504 Majestics. Majid is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Majestic against Majid, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Majestic Majid

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 52 years in which either name was published, Majid for 36 years and Majestic for 16 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Majestic Majid
Total US births 504752
Most in one year 2636
Babies in 2025 1336
Estimated living today 500730
Median age today 1517
Peak year 19962025
Best rank 5,280th girls3,240th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,240th
First recorded 19931970
Girls / boys 277 / 2270 / 752

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 Majids alive today are over 17; half the Majestics are over 15. That is 2 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: Majestic and Majid.