Jayme
Jayme is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,644 among girls’ names and #6,253 among boys’, #8,339 among all names counting both); 17,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,000 Americans named Jayme and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayme by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayme?
#7,644 among girls’ names, 2025
Jayme fell from #2,980 in 2015 to #7,644 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 8.7 per million.
696 babies in 1985, the peak
Jayme peaked in 1985, when 696 babies were given it (597 girls, #383 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,644 | 14 | #6,253 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,516 | 19 | #5,143 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,831 | 23 | #4,525 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,844 | 28 | #3,935 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,192 | 16 | #5,646 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,211 | 24 | #4,200 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,826 | 17 | #5,428 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,367 | 18 | #5,184 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,113 | 20 | #4,826 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,420 | 26 | #4,042 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,980 | 20 | #4,793 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,661 | 21 | #4,605 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,545 | 25 | #4,003 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,384 | 29 | #3,655 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,334 | 26 | #3,937 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,065 | 40 | #2,932 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,728 | 36 | #3,189 |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,647 | 47 | #2,649 |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,456 | 48 | #2,582 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,510 | 41 | #2,805 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,549 | 33 | #3,118 |
| 2004 | 166 | #1,291 | 35 | #2,914 |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,235 | 51 | #2,160 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,339 | 53 | #2,054 |
| 2001 | 192 | #1,103 | 41 | #2,397 |
| 2000 | 179 | #1,139 | 39 | #2,449 |
| 1999 | 191 | #1,056 | 52 | #1,887 |
| 1998 | 207 | #976 | 48 | #1,999 |
| 1997 | 219 | #913 | 44 | #2,035 |
| 1996 | 264 | #787 | 55 | #1,714 |
| 1995 | 254 | #782 | 52 | #1,714 |
| 1994 | 293 | #711 | 79 | #1,311 |
| 1993 | 277 | #750 | 57 | #1,579 |
| 1992 | 315 | #687 | 75 | #1,299 |
| 1991 | 356 | #631 | 104 | #1,060 |
| 1990 | 381 | #594 | 98 | #1,074 |
| 1989 | 352 | #605 | 104 | #1,002 |
| 1988 | 379 | #562 | 95 | #996 |
| 1987 | 444 | #487 | 97 | #955 |
| 1986 | 444 | #484 | 90 | #967 |
| 1985 | 597 | #383 | 99 | #913 |
| 1984 | 446 | #468 | 68 | #1,089 |
| 1983 | 464 | #443 | 71 | #1,056 |
| 1982 | 506 | #432 | 94 | #924 |
| 1981 | 480 | #448 | 98 | #904 |
| 1980 | 493 | #437 | 98 | #907 |
| 1979 | 381 | #516 | 88 | #939 |
| 1978 | 443 | #448 | 102 | #850 |
| 1977 | 436 | #454 | 121 | #775 |
| 1976 | 480 | #421 | 125 | #745 |
| 1975 | 211 | #703 | 108 | #801 |
| 1974 | 157 | #839 | 102 | #793 |
| 1973 | 121 | #986 | 83 | #876 |
| 1972 | 119 | #998 | 79 | #903 |
| 1971 | 142 | #918 | 66 | #1,002 |
| 1970 | 147 | #897 | 72 | #944 |
| 1969 | 122 | #972 | 50 | #1,104 |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,061 | 33 | #1,349 |
| 1967 | 92 | #1,089 | 33 | #1,323 |
| 1966 | 87 | #1,137 | 28 | #1,465 |
| 1965 | 88 | #1,131 | 40 | #1,213 |
| 1964 | 103 | #1,074 | 36 | #1,319 |
| 1963 | 126 | #940 | 33 | #1,363 |
| 1962 | 115 | #1,003 | 51 | #1,075 |
| 1961 | 78 | #1,253 | 36 | #1,335 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,140 | 37 | #1,304 |
| 1959 | 88 | #1,136 | 33 | #1,371 |
| 1958 | 88 | #1,130 | 42 | #1,195 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,057 | 27 | #1,529 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,204 | 20 | #1,780 |
| 1955 | 72 | #1,175 | 22 | #1,659 |
| 1954 | 64 | #1,243 | 19 | #1,790 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,594 | 10 | #2,612 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,722 | 10 | #2,601 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,562 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,141 | 6 | #3,492 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,561 | 6 | #3,503 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,445 | 6 | #3,477 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,388 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,935 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,805 | 5 | #3,530 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,863 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,351 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,938 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,613 | 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 Jayme a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 17,968 Americans recorded as Jayme, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jayme: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayme, and how old are they?
17,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 17,968 Americans ever recorded as Jayme. The median Jayme alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 15,960 people named Jayme (12,665 women and girls, 3,295 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 816 |
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 Jayme born?
The states with the most babies named Jayme are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,804 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,148 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 806 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 680 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 640 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 624 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 468 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 426 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 377 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 354 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Jayme is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayme is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1938 it was given 1.2 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 Jayme 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 428,597 babies since 1880, Jayme is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 889 babies (3.1%), the second 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 Jayme
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 Jayme and names like it
- Compare Jayme and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJayme peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayme since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Jayme.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jayme alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.