How rare is the name Jamey?

8,254 people in the United States have the first name Jamey, about 1 in 36,592. It ranks #2,805 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAMEY

#2,805

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,254
About
1 in 36,592
This common or more
80.9%
Who bears it

Of the 8,254 people named Jamey, 83.3% reported their origin as White, 6.5% as Black and 4.4% as two or more races. 67.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jamey peaked in 1976, when 576 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19442025
Peak year
1976
Births that year
576
In 2025*
31 ▼95%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 9,808 babies have been given the name since 1944. 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.

Jamey by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #835. The largest share of babies named Jamey, 54.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#6,10968
1950s#2,505461
1960s#1,5991,259
1970s#8354,298
1980s#1,5551,783
1990s#2,845911
2000s#5,176531
2010s#7,377338
2020s#8,581159
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–6410.4%
Generation X 1965–8054.2%
Millennials 1981–9622.7%
Generation Z 1997–128.6%
2013 and later3.9%

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 Jamey is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamey has been most common in Alabama (2.4×), Georgia (2.3×), and Iowa (2.1×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.36×).

4,856 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 Jamey

#2,803 Nakia · 8,260#2,804 Sana · 8,257#2,806 Vinh · 8,249#2,807 Lien · 8,235

Spelled almost the same

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

#4,068 Jame · 4,759#4,313 Janey · 4,394#6,025 Jamee · 2,726#11,031 Jamy · 1,180#14,924 Jamea · 780#19,978 Jammy · 522#32,949 Jaimey · 253#39,783 Jameya · 189

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