Jabez vs Jabin
American parents have registered 1,134 Jabezes since 1880, against 626 Jabins. Jabez is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jabez Jabin
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 59 years in which either name was published, Jabez for 41 years and Jabin for 18 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1954 Jabez ahead
- 1976–1986 Jabin ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1987–1995 Jabez ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1996–2000 Jabin ahead
- 2001–2025 Jabez ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Jabez | Jabin | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,134 | 626 |
| Most in one year | 102 | 41 |
| Babies in 2025 | 17 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 610 |
| Median age today | 19 | 21 |
| Peak year | 2002 | 2001 |
| Best rank | 1,305th boys | 2,386th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,399th | 12,008th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1966 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,134 | 0 / 626 |
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 Jabins alive today are over 21; half the Jabezes are over 19. 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: Jabez and Jabin.