Jamarcus
Jamarcus was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,986 among boys’ names; 5,638 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,500 Americans named Jamarcus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamarcus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamarcus?
#3,986 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamarcus fell from #1,774 in 2015 to #3,986 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.9 to 15.8 per million.
301 babies in 2007, the peak
Jamarcus peaked in 2007, when 301 boys were given it, #744 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,986 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,183 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,629 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,574 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,937 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,355 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,177 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,400 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 78 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 95 | #1,667 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,774 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,439 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,230 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,281 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 186 | #1,042 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 212 | #950 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 276 | #796 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 301 | #744 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 206 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 153 | #1,076 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,003 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,065 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 161 | #955 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 152 | #980 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 149 | #967 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 171 | #853 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 174 | #831 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 177 | #813 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 182 | #795 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 203 | #736 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 190 | #757 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 175 | #790 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 164 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 157 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 116 | #945 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 110 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,207 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,080 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,443 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,526 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamarcus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamarcus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamarcus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamarcus, and how old are they?
5,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,638 Americans ever recorded as Jamarcus. The median Jamarcus alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,008 people named Jamarcus (18 women and girls, 3,990 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 862 |
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 Jamarcus born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,179 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,430 | 4.1× |
Where Jamarcus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamarcus is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1975 it was given 9.7 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 Jamarcus 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 6,315 babies since 1880, Jamarcus is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Jamarcus
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 Jamarcus and names like it
- Compare Jamarcus and JamarkusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamarcus peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamarcus since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jamarcus.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamarcus alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.