In 2025, 509 US boys were named Jamari, making it the 576th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #561 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 530 boys named Jamari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #386, reached in 2010. The most boys given the name in a single year was 774, in 2008. For comparison, it was #546 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamari in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 8 babies. In all, 16,134 US babies have been given the name, 5.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,890 babies named Jamari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,057 US boys were named Jamari; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 586. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,356 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamari ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #103 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jahmari (1,472 babies since 1880), Jamaria (1,369 babies since 1880), Jamauri (1,036 babies since 1880) and Jamarie (756 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamario, Jameria and Jamaree are summarised on this page.