Jamai
Jamai was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,105 among boys’ names; 268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamai?
#10,105 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamai rose from #11,257 in 2015 to #10,105 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
29 babies in 2004, the peak
Jamai peaked in 2004, when 29 babies were given it (20 boys, #4,324 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,105 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,082 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,410 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,592 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,869 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #10,185 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,106 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,557 | 6 | #11,257 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,412 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,095 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 11 | #7,242 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,066 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 13 | #6,503 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #6,977 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 16 | #5,596 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,481 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 19 | #4,759 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 12 | #6,378 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,056 | 20 | #4,324 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,594 | 8 | #8,156 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,902 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,774 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,861 | 7 | #8,211 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,290 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,354 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,663 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jamai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 268 Americans recorded as Jamai, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamai, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Jamai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 295 people named Jamai (113 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jamai rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 14,687 babies since 1880, Jamai is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 46 babies (15%), the third 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 Jamai
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 Jamai and names like it
- Compare Jamai and JameyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamai peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Jamai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.