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Jahari vs Jahmeir

American parents have registered 2,095 Jaharis since 1880, against 380 Jahmeirs. Jahari is still ahead, with 100 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahari Jahmeir

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

Jahari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Jahari had 37 and Jahmeir had 13.

Side by side

  Jahari Jahmeir
Total US births 2,095380
Most in one year 11221
Babies in 2025 10013
Estimated living today 2,100380
Median age today 1212
Peak year 20252020
Best rank 1,663rd boys4,540th boys
Rank in 2025 1,663rd6,446th
First recorded 19772001
Girls / boys 219 / 1,8760 / 380

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.

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: Jahari and Jahmeir.