Jamaris
Jamaris was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,800 among boys’ names; 473 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaris?
#12,800 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamaris fell from #9,983 in 2015 to #12,800 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
24 babies in 2001, the peak
Jamaris peaked in 2001, when 24 babies were given it (17 boys, #4,566 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,800 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #7,990 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,141 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,321 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,085 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,983 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #12,865 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,324 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,373 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,889 | 10 | #7,725 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #15,767 | 15 | #5,854 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 24 | #4,212 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,219 | 13 | #6,558 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 17 | #5,295 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 14 | #5,901 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,539 | 9 | #7,911 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,315 | 7 | #9,337 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,773 | 6 | #10,092 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,269 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,593 | 17 | #4,566 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,517 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 15 | #4,626 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 11 | #5,617 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 13 | #4,774 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,019 | 9 | #6,187 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,124 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 12 | #4,917 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,368 | 8 | #6,458 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 15 | #3,993 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 15 | #3,888 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,758 | 10 | #5,142 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 13 | #4,129 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,532 | 14 | #3,591 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,359 | 11 | #4,075 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,468 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,745 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 9 | #4,289 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,770 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,463 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jamaris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 473 Americans recorded as Jamaris, 16% are girls and 84% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Jamaris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaris, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Jamaris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 422 people named Jamaris (131 women and girls, 291 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,497 babies since 1880, Jamaris is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 27 babies (19%), again the third 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 Jamaris
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 Jamaris and names like it
- Compare Jamaris and JamariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamaris peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaris since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jamaris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamaris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.