Jami
Jami was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,905 among girls’ names; 22,410 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,100 Americans named Jami and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 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 Jami by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jami mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Jami is “a male given name of modern usage”
Diminutive of Viljami, Jalmari and Benjamin.
/ˈjɑmi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jami?
#13,905 among girls’ names, 2025
Jami fell from #5,361 in 2015 to #13,905 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 3.7 per million.
1,070 babies in 1977, the peak
Jami peaked in 1977, when 1,070 babies were given it (1,041 girls, #239 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,905 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,843 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,672 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,995 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,620 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,614 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,500 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,533 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,613 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,215 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,361 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,830 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,568 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,705 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,437 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,525 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,052 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,347 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,902 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,651 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,209 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,950 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,266 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,479 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 146 | #1,305 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 138 | #1,310 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 155 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 207 | #953 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 207 | #936 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 210 | #899 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 229 | #857 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 304 | #704 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 356 | #633 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 446 | #521 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 458 | #521 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 457 | #512 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 486 | #464 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 524 | #426 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 524 | #419 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 690 | #341 | 0.40 |
| 1984 | 623 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 1983 | 737 | #316 | 0.44 |
| 1982 | 757 | #319 | 0.45 |
| 1981 | 803 | #300 | 0.48 |
| 1980 | 906 | #275 | 0.55 |
| 1979 | 921 | #265 | 0.57 |
| 1978 | 917 | #257 | 0.60 |
| 1977 | 1,041 | #239 | 0.68 |
| 1976 | 980 | #241 | 0.67 |
| 1975 | 603 | #356 | 0.41 |
| 1974 | 446 | #434 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 486 | #409 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 482 | #409 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 533 | #402 | 0.32 |
| 1970 | 549 | #413 | 0.31 |
| 1969 | 537 | #410 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 417 | #471 | 0.25 |
| 1967 | 351 | #507 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 320 | #528 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 327 | #528 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 283 | #588 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 270 | #612 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 305 | #563 | 0.16 |
| 1961 | 249 | #647 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 263 | #620 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 194 | #720 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 170 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 138 | #865 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 111 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,790 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,943 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jami a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,410 Americans recorded as Jami, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Jami: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jami, and how old are they?
21,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 22,410 Americans ever recorded as Jami. The median Jami alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 19,459 people named Jami (18,700 women and girls, 759 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,369 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 | 1,960 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 204 |
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 Jami born?
The states with the most babies named Jami are California, Ohio and Texas, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,864 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 1,356 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 1,306 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,229 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 944 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 879 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 818 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 660 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 641 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 619 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Jami is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jami is most over-represented in Montana: since 1946 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Jami 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 431,112 babies since 1880, Jami is the second most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 950 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Jami
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 Jami and names like it
- Compare Jami and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJami peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jami since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jami: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jami.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jami alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.