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Jailene vs Jaimie

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 3,148 Jailenes. But in 2025 it was Jailene that was commoner, 22 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jailene against Jaimie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jailene Jaimie

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 77 years in which either name was published, Jaimie for 54 years and Jailene for 23 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Jailene Jaimie
Total US births 3,14810,453
Most in one year 513694
Babies in 2025 225
Estimated living today 3,10010,000
Median age today 2638
Peak year 19991987
Best rank 506th girls352nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th14,942nd
First recorded 19921946
Girls / boys 3,148 / 09,549 / 904

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 Jaimies alive today are over 38; half the Jailenes are over 26. That is 12 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: Jailene and Jaimie.