Jahmere
Jahmere was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,481 among boys’ names; 705 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahmere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahmere?
#5,481 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahmere fell from #4,612 in 2015 to #5,481 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.0 per million.
46 babies in 2009, the peak
Jahmere peaked in 2009, when 46 boys were given it, #2,674 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,481 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,137 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,136 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,292 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,419 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,114 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,690 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,820 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,653 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,013 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,612 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,946 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,148 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,136 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,643 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,585 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,674 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,851 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,333 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,760 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,340 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,780 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,503 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,490 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,023 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,398 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,138 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,511 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,294 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,449 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,393 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,355 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahmere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahmere 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 Jahmere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahmere, and how old are they?
An estimated 696 Americans named Jahmere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 425 people named Jahmere (11 women and girls, 414 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Jahmere born?
The states with the most babies named Jahmere are New York, North Carolina and New Jersey, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 113 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 53 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New Jersey | 22 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jahmere is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahmere is most over-represented in New York: since 1989 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jahmere with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,713 babies since 1880, Jahmere is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 212 babies (8.0%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Jahmere
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 Jahmere and names like it
- Compare Jahmere and JamereBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJahmere peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahmere since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jahmere.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahmere alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.