Jamey
Jamey is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,444 among girls’ names and #4,312 among boys’, #7,782 among all names counting both); 9,808 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,920 Americans named Jamey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 39 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamey?
#4,312 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamey rose from #4,344 in 2015 to #4,312 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 14.1 per million.
576 babies in 1976, the peak
Jamey peaked in 1976, when 576 babies were given it (430 boys, #369 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,444 | 24 | #4,312 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,195 | 20 | #4,954 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,690 | 15 | #6,047 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 21 | #4,768 | |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,219 | 16 | #5,639 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,697 | 23 | #4,327 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,806 | 25 | #4,162 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,865 | 26 | #4,041 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,580 | 21 | #4,654 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,753 | 19 | #5,017 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,175 | 23 | #4,344 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,473 | 13 | #6,443 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,855 | 18 | #5,052 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,763 | 15 | #5,819 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,624 | 15 | #5,790 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,862 | 28 | #3,752 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,773 | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,227 | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,609 | 19 | #4,882 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,013 | 22 | #4,286 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,409 | 26 | #3,655 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,932 | 18 | #4,669 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,138 | 22 | #3,889 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,214 | 35 | #2,715 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,604 | 20 | #4,025 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,761 | 20 | #3,978 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,366 | 28 | #2,967 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,077 | 28 | #2,884 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,391 | 45 | #2,002 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,104 | 49 | #1,848 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,987 | 41 | #2,034 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,895 | 58 | #1,585 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,899 | 47 | #1,802 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,131 | 69 | #1,360 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,672 | 64 | #1,418 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,609 | 69 | #1,336 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,580 | 76 | #1,229 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,191 | 71 | #1,205 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,137 | 74 | #1,116 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,872 | 76 | #1,068 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,716 | 120 | #814 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,844 | 113 | #824 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,555 | 95 | #907 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,388 | 115 | #830 |
| 1981 | 110 | #1,195 | 171 | #654 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,424 | 184 | #640 |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,189 | 239 | #556 |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,226 | 240 | #535 |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,005 | 332 | #436 |
| 1976 | 146 | #904 | 430 | #369 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,547 | 402 | #389 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,491 | 394 | #391 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,577 | 388 | #395 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,518 | 387 | #398 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,480 | 316 | #458 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,564 | 294 | #470 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,615 | 170 | #602 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,790 | 114 | #708 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,830 | 110 | #706 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,933 | 64 | #906 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,428 | 90 | #781 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,498 | 80 | #850 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,932 | 64 | #940 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,958 | 86 | #817 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,431 | 66 | #941 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,163 | 63 | #956 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,365 | 71 | #910 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,037 | 59 | #996 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,188 | 44 | #1,174 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,237 | 21 | #1,741 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,665 | 18 | #1,875 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,048 | 12 | #2,368 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,175 | 9 | #2,802 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,278 | 11 | #2,432 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,147 | 6 | #3,537 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,382 | 6 | #3,487 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,268 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,898 | 5 | #3,912 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,521 | 8 | #2,980 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,315 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,817 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,860 | 5 | #3,655 |
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 Jamey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,808 Americans recorded as Jamey, 31% are girls and 69% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamey, and how old are they?
8,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 9,808 Americans ever recorded as Jamey. The median Jamey alive today is 49 years old; half are between 39 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 8,254 people named Jamey (2,687 women and girls, 5,567 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,013 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 778 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 836 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 379 |
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 Jamey born?
The states with the most babies named Jamey are Texas, Ohio and California, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 516 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 392 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 378 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 318 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 236 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 218 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 216 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 215 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 203 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 202 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jamey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamey is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1944 it was given 1.3 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 Jamey 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 135,929 babies since 1880, Jamey is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 493 babies (6.3%), again the second 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.
More about Jamey and names like it
- Compare Jamey and JaimeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamey peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamey since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Jamey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jamey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.