Jameson
Jameson was given to 2,609 boys in 2025, #137 among boys’ names; 63,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 62,300 Americans named Jameson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jameson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jameson is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a Scottish and Northern Irish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name James.”
/ˈd͡ʒeɪməsən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jameson?
#137 among boys’ names, 2025
Jameson rose from #144 in 2015 to #137 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 1.5 per 1,000.
4,708 babies in 2019, the peak
Jameson peaked in 2019, when 4,708 babies were given it (4,674 boys, #77 among boys’ names). The 2,630 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,609 | #137 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 3,036 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 3,488 | #102 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 4,079 | #85 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 4,309 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 4,406 | #79 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 4,674 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 2018 | 4,252 | #91 | 2.3 |
| 2017 | 3,932 | #100 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 3,284 | #128 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,854 | #144 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,600 | #160 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,236 | #181 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 1,823 | #208 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,664 | #210 | 0.88 |
| 2010 | 1,229 | #277 | 0.64 |
| 2009 | 1,005 | #317 | 0.51 |
| 2008 | 811 | #378 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 779 | #389 | 0.38 |
| 2006 | 668 | #425 | 0.33 |
| 2005 | 513 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 465 | #516 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 403 | #556 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 318 | #620 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 306 | #620 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 233 | #737 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 223 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 239 | #700 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 242 | #674 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 222 | #711 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 243 | #677 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 229 | #687 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 235 | #671 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 205 | #720 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 278 | #611 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 233 | #658 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 230 | #657 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 260 | #573 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 294 | #522 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 368 | #455 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 422 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 369 | #436 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 328 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 129 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 91 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 84 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 90 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 78 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 75 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 77 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 75 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 73 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 69 | #982 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,086 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 65 | #952 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,755 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,230 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,320 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,929 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,063 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 63,091 Americans recorded as Jameson, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 girls and 2,609 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jameson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameson, and how old are they?
62,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 63,091 Americans ever recorded as Jameson. The median Jameson alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 37,850 people named Jameson (952 women and girls, 36,898 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,509 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 854 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 46,000 |
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 Jameson born?
The states with the most babies named Jameson are Texas, California and Michigan, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 211 | #182 | 0.7× |
| California | 191 | #200 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 142 | #58 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 122 | #182 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 122 | #101 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 115 | #117 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 113 | #111 | 1.1× |
| New York | 112 | #171 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 94 | #78 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 82 | #113 | 1.1× |
Where Jameson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jameson is most over-represented in New Hampshire: since 1922 it was given 1.9 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 Jameson 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 89,860 babies since 1880, Jameson is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,630 of their 3,020 babies (87%), 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 Jameson
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 Jameson and names like it
- Compare Jameson and JamisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJameson peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jameson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Jameson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jameson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.