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Jailine vs Jaimie

American parents have registered 10,453 Jaimies since 1880, against 405 Jailines. Jaimie is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jailine 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

Jaimie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Jailine had 77 and Jaimie had 113.

Side by side

  Jailine Jaimie
Total US births 40510,453
Most in one year 89694
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 40010,000
Median age today 2638
Peak year 19991987
Best rank 1,786th girls352nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19961946
Girls / boys 405 / 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 Jailines 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: Jailine and Jaimie.