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Jaheim vs Jahziel

American parents have registered 4,067 Jaheims since 1880, against 1,267 Jahziels. But in 2025 it was Jahziel that was commoner, 166 babies to 43.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaheim 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 31 years in which either name was published, Jaheim for 19 years and Jahziel for 12 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaheim Jahziel
Total US births 4,0671,267
Most in one year 757183
Babies in 2025 43166
Estimated living today 4,0001,300
Median age today 214
Peak year 20022024
Best rank 356th boys1,145th boys
Rank in 2025 2,884th1,217th
First recorded 20001994
Girls / boys 5 / 4,06215 / 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 Jaheims alive today are over 21; half the Jahziels are over 4. That is 17 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 Jaheim Jahziel
England and Wales 35217

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: Jaheim and Jahziel.