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Jabez vs Jabria

American parents have registered 1,158 Jabrias since 1880, against 1,134 Jabezes. But in 2025 it was Jabez that was commoner, 17 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jabez Jabria

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 54 years in which either name was published, Jabez for 40 years and Jabria for 14 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jabez Jabria
Total US births 1,1341,158
Most in one year 10268
Babies in 2025 179
Estimated living today 1,1001,100
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20021995
Best rank 1,305th boys2,006th girls
Rank in 2025 5,399th10,107th
First recorded 18801990
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1341,158 / 0

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 Jabrias alive today are over 22; half the Jabezes are over 19. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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