How rare is the name Jayme?

15,960 people in the United States have the first name Jayme, about 1 in 18,924. It ranks #1,828 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JAYME

#1,828

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
15,960
About
1 in 18,924
This common or more
77.2%
Who bears it

Of the 15,960 people named Jayme, 79.6% reported their origin as White, 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.6% as Black. 79.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jayme peaked in 1985, when 696 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19382025
Peak year
1985
Births that year
696
In 2025*
28 ▼96%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 17,968 babies have been given the name since 1938. 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.

Jayme by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #758. The largest share of babies named Jayme, 42.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1930s#11,9535
1940s#4,598119
1950s#1,899793
1960s#1,5191,378
1970s#9403,583
1980s#7585,519
1990s#1,2053,421
2000s#2,0671,979
2010s#3,840894
2020s#5,928277
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–648.8%
Generation X 1965–8027%
Millennials 1981–9642.2%
Generation Z 1997–1217.2%
2013 and later4.6%

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 Jayme is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jayme has been most common in Oklahoma (1.9×), Washington (1.9×), and Kansas (1.7×), and least common in Virginia (0.28×).

11,294 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Jayme ranks #43,557 of 156,621, with 534 people. See Jayme as a last name

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