Jamarius
Jamarius was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,607 among boys’ names; 1,822 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Jamarius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamarius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamarius?
#6,607 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamarius fell from #3,922 in 2015 to #6,607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 7.6 per million.
97 babies in 2006, the peak
Jamarius peaked in 2006, when 97 boys were given it, #1,539 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,607 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,622 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,956 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,356 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,874 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,195 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,692 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,135 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,157 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,826 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,922 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,446 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,226 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,612 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,484 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,842 | 41.2 |
| 2009 | 88 | #1,747 | 44.4 |
| 2008 | 91 | #1,682 | 44.6 |
| 2007 | 78 | #1,855 | 37.6 |
| 2006 | 97 | #1,539 | 47.2 |
| 2005 | 85 | #1,605 | 42.6 |
| 2004 | 82 | #1,595 | 41.3 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,442 | 46.1 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,874 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,782 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 69 | #1,669 | 35.1 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,723 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,797 | 29.3 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,899 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,823 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,564 | 31.5 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,091 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,911 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,888 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,427 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,759 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,430 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,411 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,379 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,622 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,469 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,746 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamarius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamarius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamarius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamarius, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,822 Americans ever recorded as Jamarius. The median Jamarius alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,242 people named Jamarius (12 women and girls, 1,230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,686 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 298 |
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 Jamarius born?
The states with the most babies named Jamarius are Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 203 | not ranked | 11.1× |
| Georgia | 130 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 129 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Tennessee | 106 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 87 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 37 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 33 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jamarius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamarius is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1984 it was given 11.1 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 Jamarius 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,330 babies since 1880, Jamarius is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 27 babies (48%), 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 Jamarius
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 Jamarius and names like it
- Compare Jamarius and JamariousBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamarius peaked in 2006.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamarius since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jamarius.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamarius alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.