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Jashanti vs Jasiah

American parents have registered 10,245 Jasiahs since 1880, against 153 Jashantis. Jasiah is still ahead, with 616 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jashanti Jasiah

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

Jasiah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jashanti had 63 and Jasiah had 105.

Side by side

  Jashanti Jasiah
Total US births 15310,245
Most in one year 63670
Babies in 2025 under 5616
Estimated living today 15010,000
Median age today 228
Peak year 20022022
Best rank 2,497th girls467th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked498th
First recorded 20021991
Girls / boys 153 / 0648 / 9,597

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 Jashantis alive today are over 22; half the Jasiahs are over 8. That is 14 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: Jashanti and Jasiah.