Jayme

#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to girls 78.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
1985 · 597 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
14,071
since 1938

Jayme over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201938peak #382, 1985peak #744, 1976girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114#6,14314
2024#5,44323#5,06719
2023#5,75221#4,45623
2022#4,79328#3,87928
2021#4,16734#5,56216
2020#4,16933#4,14124
2019#4,77328#5,34017
2018#3,34647#5,10618
2017#3,09152#4,74620
2016#2,41277#3,99026
2015#2,96458#4,71120
2014#2,64866#4,53821
2013#2,53370#3,96425
2012#2,37378#3,62529
2011#2,32680#3,88526
2010#2,05996#2,91440
2009#1,727127#3,16236
2008#1,642137#2,63247
2007#1,453161#2,56448
2006#1,505146#2,78441
2005#1,547132#3,09133
2004#1,290166#2,88735
2003#1,235170#2,15351
2002#1,338145#2,04653
2001#1,102192#2,38641
2000#1,139179#2,42539
1999#1,058191#1,87952
1998#975207#1,98748
1997#914219#2,02444
1996#786264#1,70555
1995#782254#1,70652
1994#711293#1,31279
1993#749277#1,57757
1992#687315#1,30175
1991#630356#1,063104
1990#595381#1,07298
1989#606352#1,002104
1988#562379#99495
1987#487444#95497
1986#484444#96590
1985#382597#91099
1984#468446#1,08468
1983#443464#1,04971
1982#432506#92094
1981#447480#90098
1980#436493#90598
1979#516381#93788
1978#448443#847102
1977#454436#773121
1976#419480#744125
1975#702211#800108
1974#839157#793102
1973#980121#87483
1972#996119#90079
1971#917142#99866
1970#894147#94072
1969#970122#1,09750
1968#1,05699#1,33933
1967#1,08692#1,31233
1966#1,13587#1,45028
1965#1,12988#1,20640
1964#1,073103#1,31136
1963#940126#1,35433
1962#1,001115#1,06951
1961#1,25378#1,32236
1960#1,13891#1,29537
1959#1,13588#1,36033
1958#1,12988#1,18642
1957#1,05597#1,51127
1956#1,20475#1,76520
1955#1,17572#1,64622
1954#1,24164#1,76219
1953#1,58638#2,53110
1952#1,71333#2,51410
1951#1,55537—
1950#3,05212#3,3296
1949#2,51416#3,2986
1948#2,41617#3,3166
1947#2,35418—
1946#1,91923—
1945#3,6767#3,3385
1944#3,6877—
1943#3,2499—
1942#4,6225—
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First appearance
1938

The first year at least five girls were named Jayme! It came in at #4,342, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1938–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jayme is popular in 1938

No state had 5 or more girls named Jayme in 1938, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jayme
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,048 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #7,491)
  • 3,322 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #7,491)
  • 4,527 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #7,491)
  • Biggest jump: 283 spots in 1976 (#702 → #419)
  • Biggest drop: 133 spots in 1964 (#940 → #1,073)
Rise & fade · girls
47 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1938
  • Peaked 1985 at #382 (597 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 31 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1969–1998
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,882
  • Highest: 1 in 2,882 girls born in 1985 were named Jayme (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 32.7% of all girls named Jayme (4,605) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
  • Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,342 (1938)#4,342
1940s102#1,919 (1946)#3,055
1950s604#1,055 (1957)#1,485
1960s1,001#940 (1963)#1,078
1970s2,637#419 (1976)#717
1980s4,605#382 (1985)#475
1990s2,757#595 (1990)#789
2000s1,555#1,102 (2001)#1,398
2010s652#2,059 (2010)#2,853
2020s153#4,167 (2021)#5,303

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.

Jayme in 1938

girls
#4,342
5 births · 1 in 220,691 girls

Top girls' names in 1938

  1. #1Mary56,225
  2. #2Barbara39,277
  3. #3Patricia27,560
  4. #4Betty25,506
  5. #5Shirley23,766
  6. #6Carol19,421
  7. #7Nancy18,951
  8. #8Dorothy16,358
  9. #9Margaret15,330
  10. #10Joan14,303
  11. #4,342Jayme5
More about 1938

girls

1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 220,691 of them was named Jayme, which outranked 13.1% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jayme
  1. #3,847Zennie6
  2. #3,847Zollie6
  3. #3,847Zoraida6
  4. #4,342Jayme5
  5. #4,342Aaron5
  6. #4,342Abbey5
  7. #4,342Adean5

Tied with 653 names at #4,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,209Danielle#2,940 → #731
  2. ↑ 833Lorelei#1,451 → #618
  3. ↑ 623Helaine#1,493 → #870
  4. ↑ 399Janine#1,330 → #931
  5. ↑ 392Imelda#1,282 → #890
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,261Noreta#964 → #2,225
  2. ↓ 513Norita#532 → #1,045
  3. ↓ 432Noretta#856 → #1,288
  4. ↓ 366Ferne#950 → #1,316
  5. ↓ 327Verdell#904 → #1,231

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1938 →