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Jaila vs Jairo

American parents have registered 11,483 Jairos since 1880, against 2,615 Jailas. Jairo is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaila against Jairo, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaila Jairo

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

Jairo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jaila had 153 and Jairo had 316.

Side by side

  Jaila Jairo
Total US births 2,61511,483
Most in one year 189473
Babies in 2025 16251
Estimated living today 2,60011,000
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 1,268th girls556th boys
Rank in 2025 6,838th935th
First recorded 19881950
Girls / boys 2,615 / 00 / 11,483

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.

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 Jaila Jairo
England and Wales 34

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: Jaila and Jairo.