Jammy
Jammy was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 462 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jammy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jammy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,431, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1976, the peak
Jammy peaked in 1976, when 34 babies were given it (27 boys, #1,850 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #11,431 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,122 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,195 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,782 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,910 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,783 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,234 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,416 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,858 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,834 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,551 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,425 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,766 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,156 | 5 | #7,441 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,878 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,654 | 6 | #5,890 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,662 | 6 | #5,956 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,533 | 11 | #3,710 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,988 | 10 | #3,963 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 16 | #2,830 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,356 | 13 | #3,133 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,042 | 12 | #3,280 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,595 | 27 | #1,850 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 21 | #2,162 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 22 | #2,019 | |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,314 | 21 | #2,005 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 17 | #2,278 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,878 | 16 | #2,405 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,187 | 14 | #2,556 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,641 | 13 | #2,475 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,435 | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,185 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,097 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,909 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,427 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,148 | 6 | #3,822 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,205 |
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 Jammy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 462 Americans recorded as Jammy, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jammy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jammy, and how old are they?
An estimated 423 Americans named Jammy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 42 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 522 people named Jammy (194 women and girls, 328 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Jammy?
Jammy is a less common spelling of Jamey: SSA has recorded 462 Jammy and 9,808 Jamey since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 135,929 babies since 1880, Jammy is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 493 babies recorded by SSA was a Jammy (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 Jammy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jamey | 9,808 |
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 Jammy and names like it
- Compare Jammy and JameyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJammy peaked in 1976.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jammy since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Jammy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jammy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.