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Jahari vs Jahziel

American parents have registered 2,095 Jaharis since 1880, against 1,267 Jahziels. But in 2025 it was Jahziel that was commoner, 166 babies to 100.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahari against Jahziel, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahari Jahziel

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, Jahari for 32 years and Jahziel for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jahari Jahziel
Total US births 2,0951,267
Most in one year 112183
Babies in 2025 100166
Estimated living today 2,1001,300
Median age today 124
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,663rd boys1,145th boys
Rank in 2025 1,663rd1,217th
First recorded 19771994
Girls / boys 219 / 1,87615 / 1,252

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 Jaharis alive today are over 12; half the Jahziels are over 4. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jahari Jahziel
England and Wales 1617

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: Jahari and Jahziel.