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Jahkarri vs Jahmir

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 69 Jahkarris. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahkarri against Jahmir, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahkarri Jahmir

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

Jahmir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Jahkarri had 36 and Jahmir had 204.

Side by side

  Jahkarri Jahmir
Total US births 693,715
Most in one year 36366
Babies in 2025 under 5366
Estimated living today 703,700
Median age today 38
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 3,278th boys725th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked725th
First recorded 20221993
Girls / boys 0 / 690 / 3,715

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 Jahmirs alive today are over 8; half the Jahkarris are over 3. That is 5 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: Jahkarri and Jahmir.