Jamisen
Jamisen was last recorded in 2022, when 11 babies were given it; 584 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamisen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamisen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,466, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 2006, the peak
Jamisen peaked in 2006, when 36 babies were given it (26 boys, #3,836 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,466 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #7,822 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,553 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 13 | #6,572 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,867 | 18 | #5,180 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,857 | 16 | #5,636 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,394 | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,588 | 15 | #5,842 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,659 | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,472 | 20 | #4,700 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,327 | 17 | #5,338 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,896 | 18 | #5,067 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,083 | 9 | #8,395 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,632 | 23 | #4,347 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,364 | 21 | #4,604 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,722 | 22 | #4,421 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,922 | 26 | #3,836 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,533 | 17 | #4,912 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,271 | 9 | #7,794 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,485 | 12 | #6,021 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,749 | 11 | #6,271 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,364 | 10 | #6,655 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,520 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,187 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,656 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,756 |
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 Jamisen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 584 Americans recorded as Jamisen, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamisen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamisen, and how old are they?
An estimated 578 Americans named Jamisen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 576 people named Jamisen (241 women and girls, 335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 546 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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 89,178 babies since 1880, Jamisen is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,013 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamisen (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jamisen
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 Jamisen and names like it
- Compare Jamisen and JamesonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamisen peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamisen since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jamisen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamisen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.