Jamaar
Jamaar was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 617 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,015, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1982, the peak
Jamaar peaked in 1982, when 42 boys were given it, #1,498 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,015 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,447 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,174 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,195 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,023 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,123 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,138 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,778 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,099 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,392 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #7,416 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,891 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,297 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,127 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,826 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,938 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,155 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,841 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,185 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,752 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,445 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,924 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,601 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,456 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,117 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,914 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,824 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,201 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,521 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,805 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,722 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,714 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,591 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,981 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,542 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,811 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,698 | 19.0 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,498 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,109 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,307 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,628 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,848 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,714 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,360 | 7.0 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,671 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamaar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamaar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamaar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaar, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Jamaar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 23 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 421 people named Jamaar (6 women and girls, 415 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 581 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).
How common is the spelling Jamaar?
Jamaar is a less common spelling of Jamar: SSA has recorded 617 Jamaar and 16,037 Jamar since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,775 babies since 1880, Jamaar is the seventh most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 680 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamaar (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jamaar
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 Jamaar and names like it
- Compare Jamaar and JamarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamaar peaked in 1982.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaar since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jamaar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamaar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.