Jaymes
Jaymes was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,972 among boys’ names; 2,567 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Jaymes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 16 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaymes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaymes mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaymes is “a male given name of modern usage, variant of James.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaymes?
#5,972 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaymes fell from #2,826 in 2015 to #5,972 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 8.8 per million.
144 babies in 1986, the peak
Jaymes peaked in 1986, when 144 boys were given it, #755 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,972 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,624 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,961 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,612 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,690 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,960 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,521 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,405 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,036 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,856 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,826 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,471 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,821 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,464 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,720 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,078 | 33.9 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,600 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,416 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,175 | 29.9 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,715 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,218 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,261 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,369 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,480 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,759 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,395 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,423 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,215 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,916 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,852 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 59 | #1,575 | 31.0 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,617 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,476 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,455 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,013 | 55.4 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,186 | 40.9 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,185 | 40.5 |
| 1988 | 103 | #952 | 53.8 |
| 1987 | 124 | #839 | 66.4 |
| 1986 | 144 | #755 | 78.2 |
| 1985 | 113 | #848 | 61.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,355 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,299 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,030 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,711 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,885 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,665 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,711 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,356 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,240 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,773 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,997 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,562 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,686 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,049 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,560 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,751 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,738 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,216 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,951 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,436 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,822 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,201 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,731 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,932 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaymes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,567 Americans recorded as Jaymes, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaymes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaymes, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,567 Americans ever recorded as Jaymes. The median Jaymes alive today is 28 years old; half are between 16 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,156 people named Jaymes (117 women and girls, 2,039 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 108 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 783 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 499 |
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 Jaymes born?
The states with the most babies named Jaymes are California, Texas and Ohio, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 210 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 115 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Jaymes 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 5,278,106 babies since 1880, Jaymes is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 12,024 babies (<1%), 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 Jaymes
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 Jaymes and names like it
- Compare Jaymes and JamesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJaymes peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaymes since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Jaymes.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jaymes alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.