Jamese

Peak · girls
1985 · 25 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
775
since 1968

Jamese over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jamese has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,419, 1985girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2018#13,7936
2017#14,1246
2016#16,2155
2015#10,14810
2014#16,5135
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2012#9,71111
2011#9,72311
2010#13,4487
2009#8,45414
2008#7,40817
2007#8,52014
2006#9,28612
2005#7,89114
2004#5,55522
2003#4,94325
2002#8,28012
2001#5,82219
2000#6,20817
1999#5,21920
1998#3,73031
1997#4,23925
1996#4,05926
1995#3,58530
1994#3,70429
1993#4,25724
1992#3,77328
1991#3,72228
1990#4,00325
1989#3,67327
1988#4,30820
1987#4,85716
1986#4,02820
1985#3,41925
1984#4,73715
1983#5,14813
1982#4,34717
1981#4,34417
1980#3,99219
1979#4,23117
1978#4,93113
1977#5,53211
1976#7,2967
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1973#4,15514
1972#5,9598
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Jamese! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jamese is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Jamese in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jamese
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2018
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1985 at #3,419 (25 births)
  • Births halved by 2002, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 56,998
  • Highest: 1 in 56,998 girls born in 1998 were named Jamese (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 283,512 girls born in 2018 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,419 in 1985, was only 1 in 68,833 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Jamese (266) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s88#4,155 (1973)#5,570
1980s189#3,419 (1985)#4,285
1990s266#3,585 (1995)#4,029
2000s166#4,943 (2003)#7,237
2010s61#9,711 (2012)#12,959

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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