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Majid vs Majorie

American parents have registered 1,354 Majories since 1880, against 752 Majids. But in 2025 it was Majid that was commoner, 36 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Majid against Majorie, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Majid Majorie

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 122 years in which either name was published, Majorie for 74 years and Majid for 48 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Majid Majorie
Total US births 7521,354
Most in one year 3648
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 730510
Median age today 1760
Peak year 20251922
Best rank 3,240th boys1,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,240thunranked
First recorded 19701900
Girls / boys 0 / 7521,354 / 0

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 Majories alive today are over 60; half the Majids are over 17. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Majid Majorie
France 1,63010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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