How rare is the name Jamarcus?

4,008 people in the United States have the first name Jamarcus, about 1 in 75,357. It ranks #4,590 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JAMARCUS

#4,590

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,008
About
1 in 75,357
This common or more
84.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,008 people named Jamarcus, 91.8% reported their origin as Black, 4.7% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jamarcus peaked in 2007, when 301 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
301
In 2025*
27 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 5,638 babies have been given the name since 1975. 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.

Jamarcus by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,864. The largest share of babies named Jamarcus, 51%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#11,63853
1980s#3,062590
1990s#1,8641,742
2000s#2,1101,920
2010s#3,4101,066
2020s#6,083267
Generation X 1965–801.2%
Millennials 1981–9632.3%
Generation Z 1997–1251%
2013 and later15.4%

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 Jamarcus is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamarcus has been most common in Mississippi (9.5×), Alabama (9.3×), and Louisiana (5.8×), and least common in Ohio (0.16×).

4,591 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.

Exactly as common as Jamarcus

1 other first name also has 4,008 people.

#4,590 Prakash · 4,008

Either side of Jamarcus

#4,588 Annabell · 4,010#4,588 Tanja · 4,010#4,590 Prakash · 4,008#4,592 Dollie · 4,004

Spelled almost the same

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

#10,628 Jamarius · 1,242#19,703 Jamarious · 533#22,492 Jamarkus · 442#23,266 Jamaris · 422#39,641 Jamarco · 190#49,963 Jamarquis · 122

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