Jameson
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #137 for boys in 2025, 2,609 births
Given to boys 98.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 4,674 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 6 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 61,883since 1922
Jameson over time
Rank among boys' names. 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 | #5,722 | 21 | #137 | 2,609 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #118 | 3,036 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 | #102 | 3,488 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #85 | 4,079 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #80 | 4,309 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 | #79 | 4,406 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #77 | 4,674 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | #91 | 4,252 |
| 2017 | #2,487 | 72 | #100 | 3,932 |
| 2016 | #2,866 | 59 | #128 | 3,284 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 | #144 | 2,854 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | #160 | 2,600 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 | #181 | 2,236 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #208 | 1,823 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | #210 | 1,664 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 | #277 | 1,229 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | #317 | 1,005 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 | #378 | 811 |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | #388 | 779 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | #425 | 668 |
| 2005 | #3,009 | 53 | #486 | 513 |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 | #516 | 465 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #556 | 403 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 | #619 | 318 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #620 | 306 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #735 | 233 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #731 | 223 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #700 | 239 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #673 | 242 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #712 | 222 |
| 1995 | — | #677 | 243 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #687 | 229 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #672 | 235 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #720 | 205 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #612 | 278 |
| 1990 | — | #660 | 233 | |
| 1989 | — | #660 | 230 | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #573 | 260 |
| 1987 | — | #521 | 294 | |
| 1986 | — | #454 | 368 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #415 | 422 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #436 | 369 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #462 | 328 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #777 | 129 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #938 | 91 |
| 1980 | — | #1,010 | 80 | |
| 1979 | — | #965 | 84 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,060 | 67 | |
| 1977 | — | #895 | 90 | |
| 1976 | — | #942 | 78 | |
| 1975 | — | #945 | 75 | |
| 1974 | — | #923 | 77 | |
| 1973 | — | #932 | 75 | |
| 1972 | — | #943 | 73 | |
| 1971 | — | #979 | 69 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,080 | 57 | |
| 1969 | — | #951 | 65 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,731 | 21 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,366 | 12 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,186 | 14 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
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| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,391 | 11 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jameson! It came in at #3,872, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1948, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jameson is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,333 · 1 in 33,785
Best ever in a state: #22 in Alaska, 2023.
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| California | #1,333 | 5 | 1 in 33,785 |
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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 Jameson
- 19 spots since 2024 (#118 → #137)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#79 → #137)
- 7 spots since 2015 (#144 → #137)
- Biggest jump: 780 spots in 1969 (#1,731 → #951)
- Biggest drop: 165 spots in 1978 (#895 → #1,060)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 2019 at #77 (4,674 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 6 yrs · run 2017–2022
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1981–2025
- Highest: 1 in 384 boys born in 2019 were named Jameson (0.26%)
- Latest: 1 in 655 boys born in 2025 (0.15%)
- 46.1% of all boys named Jameson (28,548) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 6 | #3,872 (1922) | #3,872 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,516 |
| 1950s | 53 | #2,274 (1957) | #2,953 |
| 1960s | 172 | #951 (1969) | #2,430 |
| 1970s | 745 | #895 (1977) | #966 |
| 1980s | 2,571 | #415 (1985) | #625 |
| 1990s | 2,349 | #612 (1991) | #684 |
| 2000s | 5,501 | #317 (2009) | #504 |
| 2010s | 28,548 | #77 (2019) | #158 |
| 2020s | 21,927 | #79 (2020) | #100 |
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.
Jameson in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 24,505 of them was named Jameson, which outranked 84.3% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,057Forest68
- #1,057Jerrell68
- #1,057Levon68
- #1,060Jameson67
- #1,060Douglass67
- #1,060Eldon67
- #1,060Keegan67
- #1,066Brien66
- #1,066Bruno66
- #1,066Burt66
Tied with 5 names at #1,060; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.