Jamell
Jamell was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,927 among boys’ names; 2,240 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Jamell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamell?
#4,927 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamell fell from #3,923 in 2015 to #4,927 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 11.7 per million.
74 babies in 1989, the peak
Jamell peaked in 1989, when 74 boys were given it, #1,256 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,927 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,612 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,793 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,491 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,157 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,119 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,661 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,889 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,919 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,210 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,923 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,834 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,364 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,262 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,020 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,702 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,429 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,729 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,109 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,489 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,406 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,509 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,874 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,714 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,888 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,348 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,211 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,616 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,181 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,396 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,370 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,987 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,801 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,473 | 31.0 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,356 | 34.2 |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,287 | 36.0 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,256 | 37.0 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,204 | 37.1 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,153 | 37.0 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,178 | 35.3 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,127 | 36.8 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,138 | 35.5 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,336 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,221 | 32.0 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,280 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,158 | 34.8 |
| 1979 | 45 | #1,399 | 26.1 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,193 | 34.1 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,381 | 26.8 |
| 1976 | 40 | #1,419 | 25.5 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,972 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,228 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,165 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,112 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,884 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,240 Americans recorded as Jamell, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 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 Jamell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamell, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,240 Americans ever recorded as Jamell. The median Jamell alive today is 34 years old; half are between 20 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,582 people named Jamell (124 women and girls, 1,458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,071 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 362 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 618 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 265 |
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 Jamell born?
The states with the most babies named Jamell are New York, Illinois and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 361 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 74 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jamell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamell is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 2.4 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 Jamell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jamell?
Jamell is a less common spelling of Jamel: SSA has recorded 2,240 Jamell and 11,592 Jamel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,115 babies since 1880, Jamell is the sixth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 340 babies (5.9%), the fifth 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 Jamell
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 Jamell and names like it
- Compare Jamell and JamelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamell peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamell since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jamell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.