Jamari
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #576 for boys in 2025, 509 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 741 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 15,240since 1979
Jamari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #576 | 509 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #560 | 530 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 | #566 | 516 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #507 | 586 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #576 | 486 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | #584 | 474 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #564 | 496 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #563 | 489 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #557 | 487 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #573 | 484 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #546 | 523 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | #575 | 483 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #535 | 495 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | #420 | 677 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #441 | 615 |
| 2010 | #3,624 | 43 | #386 | 741 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #405 | 732 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | #389 | 774 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #418 | 695 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 | #442 | 616 |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 | #423 | 631 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #424 | 614 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 | #478 | 519 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | #566 | 388 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | #612 | 315 |
| 2000 | #4,527 | 26 | #741 | 230 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #855 | 177 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #823 | 180 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #956 | 140 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #1,025 | 120 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,218 | 89 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,577 | 57 |
| 1992 | — | #1,659 | 52 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | — | #1,968 | 38 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,072 | 16 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamari! It came in at #4,403, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamari is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#360 · 1 in 2,390
- Illinois#509 · 1 in 4,425
- Florida#530 · 1 in 4,520
- North Carolina#712 · 1 in 7,835
- Michigan#795 · 1 in 9,884
Best ever in a state: #67 in District of Columbia, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #360 | 21 | 1 in 2,390 |
| Illinois | #509 | 18 | 1 in 4,425 |
| Florida | #530 | 19 | 1 in 4,520 |
| North Carolina | #712 | 6 | 1 in 7,835 |
| Michigan | #795 | 6 | 1 in 9,884 |
| Ohio | #879 | 5 | 1 in 14,002 |
| California | #1,104 | 13 | 1 in 18,891 |
| New York | #1,186 | 7 | 1 in 16,414 |
| Texas | #1,618 | 5 | 1 in 31,413 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jamari
- 16 spots since 2024 (#560 → #576)
- 8 spots since 2020 (#584 → #576)
- 30 spots since 2015 (#546 → #576)
- Biggest jump: 133 spots in 1998 (#956 → #823)
- Biggest drop: 115 spots in 2013 (#420 → #535)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2010 at #386 (741 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,589 boys born in 2010 were named Jamari (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,356 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Jamari (5,514) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,403 |
| 1980s | 124 | #2,765 (1988) | #3,944 |
| 1990s | 1,003 | #823 (1998) | #1,307 |
| 2000s | 5,514 | #389 (2008) | #490 |
| 2010s | 5,490 | #386 (2010) | #516 |
| 2020s | 3,101 | #507 (2022) | #562 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jamari in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 91,616 of them was named Jamari, which outranked 67.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,010Yamilette20
- #5,010Yelena20
- #5,010Yoselyn20
- #5,228Jamari19
- #5,228Adyson19
- #5,228Ahtziri19
- #5,228Alexcis19
- #5,417Aaleyah18
- #5,417Aaliah18
- #5,417Africa18
Tied with 188 names at #5,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 13,465 of them was named Jamari, which outranked 91.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.