How rare is the name Jamar?

11,527 people in the United States have the first name Jamar, about 1 in 26,202. It ranks #2,258 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAMAR

#2,258

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,527
About
1 in 26,202
This common or more
79.1%
Who bears it

Of the 11,527 people named Jamar, 88.2% reported their origin as Black, 5.1% as two or more races and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jamar peaked in 1989, when 595 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672025
Peak year
1989
Births that year
595
In 2025*
72 ▼88%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 16,037 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jamar by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #809. The largest share of babies named Jamar, 44.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#10,83930
1970s#1,4271,721
1980s#8095,005
1990s#1,1973,444
2000s#1,4813,164
2010s#2,1682,046
2020s#3,463627
Generation X 1965–8013.8%
Millennials 1981–9644.9%
Generation Z 1997–1229.5%
2013 and later11.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jamar is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamar has been most common in District of Columbia (3.2×), Maryland (2.5×), and New Jersey (2.5×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.14×).

13,972 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jamar

#2,256 Ngoc · 11,554#2,257 Edison · 11,547#2,259 Trang · 11,522#2,260 Roxanna · 11,517

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jamar, most common first.

#2,460 Jamari · 10,024#3,886 Jamir · 5,048#13,083 Jamarr · 933#14,807 Jamara · 789#21,875 Jaymar · 460#23,303 Jamaar · 421#23,505 Jahmar · 416#26,105 Jamare · 359

Also a last name

As a last name, Jamar ranks #40,983 of 156,621, with 574 people. See Jamar as a last name

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