Jamison
Jamison was given to 324 boys in 2025, #786 among boys’ names; 22,740 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,000 Americans named Jamison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jamison mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jamison is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a Scottish surname transferred from the given name.”
“son of Jamie”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jamison?
#786 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamison fell from #446 in 2015 to #786 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.36 to 0.19 per 1,000.
756 babies in 2017, the peak
Jamison peaked in 2017, when 756 babies were given it (712 boys, #436 among boys’ names). The 336 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | #786 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 335 | #759 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 416 | #658 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 486 | #590 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 563 | #522 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 622 | #479 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 704 | #435 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 675 | #446 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 712 | #436 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 679 | #456 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 690 | #446 | 0.36 |
| 2014 | 689 | #441 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 615 | #458 | 0.33 |
| 2012 | 538 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 527 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 518 | #499 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 480 | #551 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 508 | #528 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 523 | #504 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 473 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 433 | #553 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 392 | #575 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 375 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 298 | #645 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 325 | #605 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 291 | #630 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 266 | #649 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 309 | #601 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 245 | #668 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 219 | #718 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 225 | #704 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 241 | #669 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 245 | #656 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 251 | #652 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 280 | #606 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 232 | #660 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 245 | #636 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 240 | #611 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 227 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 254 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 266 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 230 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 187 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 179 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 179 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 183 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 218 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 172 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 202 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 266 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 275 | #485 | 0.18 |
| 1974 | 347 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 364 | #408 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 226 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 175 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 195 | #577 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 121 | #713 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,268 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 26 | #1,526 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,574 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 31 | #1,416 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,001 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,790 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,739 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,797 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,860 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,525 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,453 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,169 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,038 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,740 Americans recorded as Jamison, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls and 324 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamison, and how old are they?
22,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 22,740 Americans ever recorded as Jamison. The median Jamison alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 18,241 people named Jamison (1,794 women and girls, 16,447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 185 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,860 |
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 Jamison born?
The states with the most babies named Jamison are Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 24 | #446 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,232 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #592 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 16 | #525 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 15 | #465 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 15 | #357 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 13 | #692 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 13 | #470 | 0.8× |
| California | 12 | #1,471 | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 12 | #413 | 1.4× |
Where Jamison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamison is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1931 it was given 1.6 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 Jamison 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, Jamison is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 336 of their 3,020 babies (11%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jamison
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 Jamison and names like it
- Compare Jamison and JamesonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJamison peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamison since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jamison: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Jamison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jamison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.