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Jahleel vs Jahmir

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 1,342 Jahleels. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahleel 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

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Jahmir for 27 years and Jahleel for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jahleel Jahmir
Total US births 1,3423,715
Most in one year 61366
Babies in 2025 27366
Estimated living today 1,3003,700
Median age today 158
Peak year 20102025
Best rank 2,169th boys725th boys
Rank in 2025 3,949th725th
First recorded 19911993
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3420 / 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 Jahleels alive today are over 15; half the Jahmirs are over 8. That is 7 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 Jahleel Jahmir
England and Wales 105

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: Jahleel and Jahmir.