Jina vs Jinks
American parents have registered 2,020 Jinas since 1880, against 11 Jinkses. Jina is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jina Jinks
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, Jina for 75 years and Jinks for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Jina | Jinks | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,020 | 11 |
| Most in one year | 56 | 6 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,900 | 0 |
| Median age today | 45 | 95 |
| Peak year | 1970 | 1929 |
| Best rank | 1,653rd girls | 3,559th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,917th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1948 | 1929 |
| Girls / boys | 2,020 / 0 | 0 / 11 |
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 Jinkses alive today are over 95; half the Jinas are over 45. That is 50 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: Jina and Jinks.