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Jaheim vs Jahkor

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 52 Jahkors. Jaheim is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaheim against Jahkor, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaheim Jahkor

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

Jaheim has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Jaheim had 44 and Jahkor had 14.

Side by side

  Jaheim Jahkor
Total US births 4,06752
Most in one year 75716
Babies in 2025 436
Estimated living today 4,00050
Median age today 214
Peak year 20022021
Best rank 356th boys5,562nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th10,695th
First recorded 20002020
Girls / boys 5 / 4,0620 / 52

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 Jaheims alive today are over 21; half the Jahkors are over 4. That is 17 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: Jaheim and Jahkor.