Jamari
Jamari was given to 509 boys in 2025, #576 among boys’ names; 16,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,900 Americans named Jamari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jamari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jamari is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jamari?
#576 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamari fell from #546 in 2015 to #576 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.27 to 0.30 per 1,000.
817 babies in 2008, the peak
Jamari peaked in 2008, when 817 babies were given it (774 boys, #390 among boys’ names). The 526 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 509 | #576 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 530 | #561 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 516 | #567 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 586 | #507 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 486 | #576 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 474 | #584 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 496 | #564 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 489 | #563 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 487 | #558 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 484 | #573 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 523 | #546 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 483 | #575 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 495 | #537 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 677 | #420 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 615 | #442 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 741 | #386 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 732 | #405 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 774 | #390 | 0.38 |
| 2007 | 695 | #418 | 0.33 |
| 2006 | 616 | #442 | 0.30 |
| 2005 | 631 | #423 | 0.32 |
| 2004 | 614 | #424 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 519 | #481 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 388 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 315 | #612 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 230 | #742 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 177 | #855 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 180 | #825 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 140 | #954 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,023 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,071 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,221 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 57 | #1,577 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,661 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,985 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,115 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,134 Americans recorded as Jamari, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 509 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamari, and how old are they?
15,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,134 Americans ever recorded as Jamari. The median Jamari alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 10,024 people named Jamari (632 women and girls, 9,392 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,903 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 651 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,800 |
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 Jamari born?
The states with the most babies named Jamari are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 45 | #663 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 43 | #441 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 33 | #361 | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 33 | #176 | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 29 | #103 | 3.1× |
| Tennessee | 29 | #301 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #491 | 1.9× |
| New York | 19 | #755 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 19 | #291 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 19 | #548 | 0.7× |
Where Jamari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamari is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1979 it was given 3.1 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 Jamari 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 24,184 babies since 1880, Jamari is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 526 of their 726 babies (72%), 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 Jamari
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 Jamari and names like it
- Compare Jamari and JamereBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamari peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamari since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jamari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.