Jamar
Jamar was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,066 among boys’ names; 16,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,400 Americans named Jamar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 20 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jamar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jamar is “a male given name.”
(Possibly a) Blend of Jamal + Lamar.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jamar?
#2,066 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamar fell from #1,046 in 2015 to #2,066 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 99.6 to 42.2 per million.
595 babies in 1989, the peak
Jamar peaked in 1989, when 595 boys were given it, #376 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,066 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,666 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,585 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,614 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,536 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 144 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,154 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 205 | #995 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 191 | #1,046 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 233 | #894 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 246 | #858 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 260 | #832 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 271 | #801 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 302 | #759 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 320 | #722 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 300 | #746 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 358 | #647 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 290 | #706 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 330 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 282 | #688 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 320 | #618 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 358 | #575 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 304 | #617 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 265 | #653 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 265 | #657 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 258 | #646 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 249 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 267 | #632 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 326 | #568 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 377 | #525 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 410 | #495 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 477 | #450 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 543 | #418 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 595 | #376 | 0.30 |
| 1988 | 534 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1987 | 496 | #388 | 0.27 |
| 1986 | 508 | #369 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 447 | #404 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 461 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1983 | 479 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 494 | #361 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 480 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 457 | #378 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 385 | #404 | 0.22 |
| 1978 | 303 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 270 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 206 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 164 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 96 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 114 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 109 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,189 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,936 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,227 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamar has been given almost only to boys: 73 girls in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jamar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamar, and how old are they?
15,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 16,037 Americans ever recorded as Jamar. The median Jamar alive today is 33 years old; half are between 20 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 11,527 people named Jamar (88 women and girls, 11,439 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,961 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 2,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,830 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,880 |
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 Jamar born?
The states with the most babies named Jamar are Alabama, Florida and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #712 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,950 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,738 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,362 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,429 | 1.2× |
Where Jamar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamar is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1967 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 Jamar 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 34,922 babies since 1880, Jamar is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 1,033 babies (7.0%), 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 Jamar
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 Jamar and names like it
- Compare Jamar and JamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamar peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamar since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jamar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.