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Jamesrobert vs Jami

American parents have registered 22,410 Jamis since 1880, against 76 Jamesroberts. Jami is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamesrobert against Jami, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamesrobert Jami

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

Jami 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 2012, when Jamesrobert had 5 and Jami had 19.

Side by side

  Jamesrobert Jami
Total US births 7622,410
Most in one year 121,070
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 7021,000
Median age today 3746
Peak year 19861977
Best rank 3,653rd boys239th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 19831946
Girls / boys 0 / 7621,473 / 937

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 Jamis alive today are over 46; half the Jamesroberts are over 37. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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