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Jahir vs Jahkor

American parents have registered 2,842 Jahirs since 1880, against 52 Jahkors. Jahir is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahir against Jahkor, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahir 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

Jahir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Jahir had 83 and Jahkor had 14.

Side by side

  Jahir Jahkor
Total US births 2,84252
Most in one year 21516
Babies in 2025 946
Estimated living today 2,80050
Median age today 144
Peak year 20032021
Best rank 809th boys5,562nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,728th10,695th
First recorded 19902020
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8420 / 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 Jahirs alive today are over 14; half the Jahkors are over 4. That is 10 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: Jahir and Jahkor.