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 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#274 · 1 in 1,741
- Massachusetts#290 · 1 in 2,759
- Connecticut#340 · 1 in 3,294
- New Mexico#347 · 1 in 2,229
- Kentucky#413 · 1 in 4,691
Best ever in a state: #22 in Alaska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #274 | 10 | 1 in 1,741 |
| Massachusetts | #290 | 14 | 1 in 2,759 |
| Connecticut | #340 | 6 | 1 in 3,294 |
| New Mexico | #347 | 5 | 1 in 2,229 |
| Kentucky | #413 | 5 | 1 in 4,691 |
| Wisconsin | #414 | 7 | 1 in 4,317 |
| Washington | #437 | 9 | 1 in 3,747 |
| South Carolina | #497 | 5 | 1 in 4,133 |
| Missouri | #500 | 6 | 1 in 5,786 |
| Alabama | #537 | 5 | 1 in 5,033 |
| Tennessee | #539 | 6 | 1 in 5,767 |
| Indiana | #541 | 6 | 1 in 6,274 |
| Maryland | #547 | 5 | 1 in 6,014 |
| New Jersey | #641 | 7 | 1 in 7,222 |
| California | #729 | 27 | 1 in 9,883 |
| Ohio | #761 | 6 | 1 in 12,249 |
| Georgia | #772 | 6 | 1 in 8,011 |
| Pennsylvania | #845 | 5 | 1 in 14,674 |
| Illinois | #980 | 6 | 1 in 14,072 |
| Texas | #997 | 10 | 1 in 15,316 |
| Florida | #1,093 | 5 | 1 in 17,090 |
| New York | #1,497 | 5 | 1 in 25,166 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 357,151 of them was named Jameson, which outranked 14.8% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 8,437 of them was named Jameson, which outranked 93.3% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).