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Jahmal vs Jahzara

American parents have registered 2,050 Jahzaras since 1880, against 1,211 Jahmals. Jahzara is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmal 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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Jahmal for 34 years and Jahzara for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jahmal Jahzara
Total US births 1,2112,050
Most in one year 41122
Babies in 2025 under 579
Estimated living today 1,2002,000
Median age today 3211
Peak year 19932008
Best rank 1,969th boys1,789th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,298th
First recorded 19692002
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2112,050 / 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 Jahmals alive today are over 32; half the Jahzaras are over 11. That is 21 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 Jahmal Jahzara
England and Wales 105105
France 405

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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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jahmal and Jahzara.