Meaning not yet researched.
Jamell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,128 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,128 in 1985; #4,928 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,928 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #1,128.
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Jamell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,128 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 74 (1990).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Jamell, making it the 4,928th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,689 places from #8,617 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 9 boys named Jamell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,128, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 74, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,925 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamell in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 2,240 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 651 babies named Jamell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US boys were named Jamell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jamel (11,592 babies since 1880), Jamaal (8,587 babies since 1880) and Jamil (7,735 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamielle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jamielle (5).
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 Jamell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #4,928 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,617 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,797 |
| 2022 | — | — | 23 | #4,495 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,162 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,123 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,666 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,893 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,923 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,214 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,925 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,837 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,366 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,265 |
| 2011 | — | — | 38 | #3,021 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,703 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,431 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,730 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,111 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,490 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,410 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,513 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,878 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,718 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,893 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,352 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,214 |
| 1998 | — | — | 32 | #2,619 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,184 |
| 1996 | — | — | 33 | #2,401 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,375 |
| 1994 | — | — | 42 | #1,992 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,806 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,478 |
| 1991 | — | — | 69 | #1,362 |
| 1990 | — | — | 74 | #1,292 |
| 1989 | — | — | 74 | #1,261 |
| 1988 | — | — | 71 | #1,207 |
| 1987 | — | — | 69 | #1,154 |
| 1986 | — | — | 65 | #1,179 |
| 1985 | — | — | 68 | #1,128 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,574 | 64 | #1,139 |
| 1983 | — | — | 49 | #1,337 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,131 | 58 | #1,222 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,666 | 52 | #1,280 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,158 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,369 | 45 | #1,399 |
| 1978 | — | — | 56 | #1,193 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,863 | 44 | #1,381 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,351 | 40 | #1,419 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,608 | 24 | #1,973 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,070 | 19 | #2,230 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,167 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,905 | 19 | #2,112 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,811 | 12 | #2,886 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,181 | — | — |
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).