Jahmai
Jahmai was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,237 among boys’ names; 316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahmai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahmai?
#9,237 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahmai fell from #6,835 in 2015 to #9,237 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.7 per million.
24 babies in 2010, the peak
Jahmai peaked in 2010, when 24 boys were given it, #4,160 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,237 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,359 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,989 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,121 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,154 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,329 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,171 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,085 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,418 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,091 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,835 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,278 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,391 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,815 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,288 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,160 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,923 | 7.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,044 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,628 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,334 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,194 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,918 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,524 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,136 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,220 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,111 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,606 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,609 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,041 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,970 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,688 | 4.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,089 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahmai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahmai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahmai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahmai, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Jahmai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Jahmai (40 women and girls, 244 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 584 babies since 1880, Jahmai is the most given (54% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jahmai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jahmai and names like it
- Compare Jahmai and JamaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJahmai peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jahmai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahmai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.