Meaning not yet researched.
Jamar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #361 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #361 in 1982; #2,066 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,066 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #361.
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Jamar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #361 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 595 (1989).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Jamar, making it the 2,066th most common boys’ name of the year, down 400 places from #1,666 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 101 boys named Jamar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #361, reached in 1982. The most boys given the name in a single year was 595, in 1989. For comparison, it was #1,046 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamar in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 16,037 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 5,005 babies named Jamar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,271 US boys were named Jamar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamar ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #712 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jomar (1,951 babies since 1880), Jamir (9,334 babies since 1880) and Jahmir (3,715 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamarr, Jameir and Jamaar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jamarr (1,470), Jameir (725), Jamaar (617), Jamire (573), Jaymar (568), Jahmar (550), Jamare (477), Jaymir (214), Jamair (157), Jamear (126), Jahmyr (118), Jaimir (100), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jamar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #712 | #753 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,362 | #1,203 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,429 | #870 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,950 | #685 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,738 | #1,322 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,066 |
| 2024 | — | — | 101 | #1,666 |
| 2023 | — | — | 110 | #1,585 |
| 2022 | — | — | 108 | #1,614 |
| 2021 | — | — | 128 | #1,426 |
| 2020 | — | — | 108 | #1,536 |
| 2019 | — | — | 131 | #1,368 |
| 2018 | — | — | 144 | #1,280 |
| 2017 | — | — | 164 | #1,154 |
| 2016 | — | — | 205 | #995 |
| 2015 | — | — | 191 | #1,046 |
| 2014 | — | — | 201 | #1,018 |
| 2013 | — | — | 233 | #894 |
| 2012 | — | — | 246 | #858 |
| 2011 | — | — | 260 | #832 |
| 2010 | — | — | 271 | #801 |
| 2009 | — | — | 302 | #759 |
| 2008 | — | — | 320 | #722 |
| 2007 | — | — | 300 | #746 |
| 2006 | — | — | 358 | #647 |
| 2005 | — | — | 290 | #706 |
| 2004 | — | — | 330 | #638 |
| 2003 | — | — | 282 | #688 |
| 2002 | — | — | 320 | #618 |
| 2001 | — | — | 358 | #575 |
| 2000 | — | — | 304 | #617 |
| 1999 | — | — | 265 | #655 |
| 1998 | — | — | 265 | #657 |
| 1997 | — | — | 258 | #646 |
| 1996 | — | — | 249 | #665 |
| 1995 | — | — | 267 | #633 |
| 1994 | — | — | 326 | #569 |
| 1993 | — | — | 377 | #525 |
| 1992 | — | — | 410 | #495 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,716 | 477 | #450 |
| 1990 | — | — | 543 | #419 |
| 1989 | — | — | 595 | #376 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,336 | 534 | #375 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,599 | 496 | #388 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,790 | 508 | #369 |
| 1985 | — | — | 447 | #404 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,496 | 461 | #379 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,563 | 479 | #366 |
| 1982 | — | — | 494 | #361 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,017 | 480 | #364 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,983 | 457 | #378 |
| 1979 | — | — | 385 | #404 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,949 | 303 | #461 |
| 1977 | — | — | 270 | #497 |
| 1976 | — | — | 206 | #564 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,605 | 164 | #631 |
| 1974 | — | — | 96 | #822 |
| 1973 | — | — | 114 | #752 |
| 1972 | — | — | 109 | #762 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,189 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,556 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,937 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,901 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,228 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).