Jamy
Jamy was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 1,134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Jamy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 35 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,273, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
77 babies in 1976, the peak
Jamy peaked in 1976, when 77 babies were given it (46 girls, #1,944 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,273 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,687 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,958 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,898 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,633 | 5 | #13,267 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,082 | 5 | #13,369 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,308 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,635 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,955 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,070 | 5 | #12,129 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 17 | #6,707 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,750 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,993 | 5 | #11,301 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,796 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,858 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,983 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,098 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,225 | 6 | #8,235 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,379 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,198 | 5 | #9,326 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,206 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,365 | 7 | #6,836 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,596 | 12 | #4,515 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,730 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,421 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,600 | 5 | #7,444 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,901 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,557 | 6 | #6,096 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,053 | 5 | #6,751 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,602 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,457 | 6 | #5,958 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,039 | 11 | #3,711 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,948 | 16 | #2,883 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,691 | 15 | #2,949 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,965 | 8 | #4,321 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,027 | 23 | #2,095 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,944 | 31 | #1,687 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,685 | 28 | #1,765 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,759 | 21 | #2,077 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,223 | 28 | #1,672 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,962 | 38 | #1,373 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,562 | 26 | #1,755 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,595 | 18 | #2,166 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,039 | 12 | #2,611 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,311 | 8 | #3,220 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,080 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,313 | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,307 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,368 | 6 | #3,815 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,672 | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,673 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,587 | 6 | #3,836 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,433 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,689 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,321 | under 5 |
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 Jamy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,134 Americans recorded as Jamy, 66% are girls and 34% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamy, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,134 Americans ever recorded as Jamy. The median Jamy alive today is 47 years old; half are between 35 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,180 people named Jamy (771 women and girls, 409 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 524 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 174 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jamy?
Jamy is a less common spelling of Jamie: SSA has recorded 1,134 Jamy and 359,590 Jamie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 417,493 babies since 1880, Jamy is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 946 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamy (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 Jamy
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 Jamy and names like it
- Compare Jamy and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamy peaked in 1976.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamy since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Jamy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jamy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.