Jamey

Where Jamey comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jamey.

  • Vowel-ended
Jamey through the years
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,430 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #369
    430 babies named Jamey, the most in any year.
  3. 1977
    Jamey Jasta born
    American vocalist
  4. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #640.
  5. 1997
    Jamey Rodemeyer born
    American blogger
  6. 2012
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Jamey Jasta · American vocalist, born 1977
  • Jamey Rodemeyer · American blogger, 1997–2011
  • Jamey Johnson · American country musician, born 1975
  • Jamey Aebersold · American musician, born 1939
  • Jamey Carroll · former baseball infielder from the United States, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.