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Jahmeir vs Jahmir

American parents have registered 3,715 Jahmirs since 1880, against 380 Jahmeirs. Jahmir is still ahead, with 366 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jahmeir 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 2001, when Jahmeir had 18 and Jahmir had 56.

Side by side

  Jahmeir Jahmir
Total US births 3803,715
Most in one year 21366
Babies in 2025 13366
Estimated living today 3803,700
Median age today 128
Peak year 20202025
Best rank 4,540th boys725th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th725th
First recorded 20011993
Girls / boys 0 / 3800 / 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 Jahmeirs alive today are over 12; half the Jahmirs are over 8. That is 4 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.

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