Jamaine
Jamaine was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,220 among boys’ names; 1,356 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Jamaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 27 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaine?
#11,220 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamaine fell from #7,717 in 2015 to #11,220 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 3.5 per million.
63 babies in 1978, the peak
Jamaine peaked in 1978, when 63 boys were given it, #1,106 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,220 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,411 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,873 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,432 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,909 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,898 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,717 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,125 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,051 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,451 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | #5,291 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,344 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,926 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,140 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,762 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,633 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,377 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,098 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,664 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,092 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,358 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,114 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,310 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,084 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,092 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,328 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,611 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,261 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,296 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,487 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,840 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,510 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,960 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,053 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,621 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,982 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,987 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,408 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,407 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 36 | #1,662 | 19.8 |
| 1981 | 46 | #1,400 | 25.7 |
| 1980 | 49 | #1,349 | 27.5 |
| 1979 | 44 | #1,410 | 25.6 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,106 | 38.4 |
| 1977 | 48 | #1,297 | 29.2 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,550 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 41 | #1,367 | 26.3 |
| 1974 | 32 | #1,558 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,363 | 24.4 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,335 | 24.7 |
| 1971 | 42 | #1,299 | 23.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,356 Americans recorded as Jamaine, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Jamaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaine, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,356 Americans ever recorded as Jamaine. The median Jamaine alive today is 39 years old; half are between 27 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 921 people named Jamaine (80 women and girls, 841 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 406 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 494 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 287 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Jamaine born?
The states with the most babies named Jamaine are New York, Florida and New Jersey, with 82% 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 | 145 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jamaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamaine is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.5 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 Jamaine 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,385 babies since 1880, Jamaine is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 48 babies (13%), the second 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 Jamaine
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 Jamaine and names like it
- Compare Jamaine and JamaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamaine peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Jamaine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamaine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.