Jamas
Jamas was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 170 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,752, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1970, the peak
Jamas peaked in 1970, when 11 boys were given it, #2,970 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #6,752 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,257 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,973 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,771 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,835 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,834 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,173 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,970 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,700 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,299 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,310 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,989 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,300 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,142 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,917 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,745 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,110 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,056 | 3.9 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,220 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,536 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,927 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,140 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,338 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,767 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,015 | 6.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,430 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,507 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamas, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Jamas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 51 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 137 people named Jamas (5 women and girls, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,278,106 babies since 1880, Jamas is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 12,024 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamas (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Jamas and names like it
- Compare Jamas and JamesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamas peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamas since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Jamas.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jamas alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.