Jaymes — #4590 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jaymes

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,414 babies named Jaymes between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jaymes currently holds the #4590 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 144 babies received it in a single year. Jaymes is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 137 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaymes performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 626 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jaymes shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 210 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaymes in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jaymes in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,414 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.