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Jahkarri vs Jahzara

American parents have registered 2,050 Jahzaras since 1880, against 69 Jahkarris. Jahzara is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jahkarri against Jahzara, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jahkarri Jahzara

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

Jahzara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Jahkarri had 36 and Jahzara had 111.

Side by side

  Jahkarri Jahzara
Total US births 692,050
Most in one year 36122
Babies in 2025 under 579
Estimated living today 702,000
Median age today 311
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 3,278th boys1,789th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,298th
First recorded 20222002
Girls / boys 0 / 692,050 / 0

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 Jahzaras alive today are over 11; half the Jahkarris are over 3. That is 8 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 Jahzara.