Jamaree
Jamaree was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,892 among boys’ names; 830 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaree by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaree?
#7,892 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamaree fell from #4,954 in 2015 to #7,892 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 5.9 per million.
51 babies in 2010, the peak
Jamaree peaked in 2010, when 51 babies were given it (46 boys, #2,653 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,892 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,303 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,949 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,625 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,424 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,816 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,875 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,178 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,634 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,532 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,954 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,951 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,800 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,326 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,131 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,653 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,675 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,973 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,945 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,113 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,483 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,538 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,750 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,904 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,189 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,461 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,140 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,756 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,300 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,460 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,751 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,409 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,022 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,972 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamaree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamaree has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jamaree: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaree, and how old are they?
An estimated 817 Americans named Jamaree and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 587 people named Jamaree (52 women and girls, 535 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 Jamaree?
Jamaree is a less common spelling of Jamari: SSA has recorded 830 Jamaree and 16,134 Jamari since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,726 babies since 1880, Jamaree is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 623 babies (1.6%), the sixth 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 Jamaree
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 Jamaree and names like it
- Compare Jamaree and JamariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJamaree peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaree since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jamaree.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamaree alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.