Meaning not yet researched.
Jameson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,609 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 2019; #137 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Jameson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#137 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #77.
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Jameson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,609 boys in 2025. Peak: #77 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 4,674 (2019).
In 2025, 2,609 US boys were named Jameson, making it the 137th most common boys’ name of the year, down 19 places from #118 in 2024. That is 427 fewer than the 3,036 boys named Jameson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #77, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,674. For comparison, it was #144 in 2015 and #3,931 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jameson in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 6 babies. In all, 63,091 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 29,041 babies named Jameson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38,069 US boys were named Jameson; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 4,674. In 2025 that was about 1 in 655 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jameson ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 13 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880) and Jamison (22,740 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamieson, Jaymeson and Jamisen 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: Jamieson (1,720), Jaymeson (755), Jamisen (584), Jaimeson (359), Jamesyn (321), Jamisyn (296), Jaymison (290), Jamason (229), Jamesen (203), Jamyson (150), Jameison (115), Jaymason (109), 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 Jameson 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 9 | #50 | #117 |
| Maine | 20 | #51 | #109 |
| New Hampshire | 24 | #57 | #50 |
| Michigan | 142 | #58 | #126 |
| West Virginia | 27 | #66 | #180 |
| Hawaii | 13 | #66 | #117 |
| Vermont | 7 | #73 | #117 |
| Indiana | 94 | #78 | #155 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #79 | #77 |
| Kentucky | 55 | #94 | #128 |
| Wisconsin | 63 | #94 | #92 |
| Kansas | 38 | #97 | #121 |
| North Dakota | 12 | #98 | #105 |
| North Carolina | 122 | #101 | #144 |
| Missouri | 66 | #101 | #133 |
| Delaware | 10 | #108 | #102 |
| Pennsylvania | 113 | #111 | #119 |
| South Dakota | 12 | #111 | #55 |
| Tennessee | 82 | #113 | #147 |
| Iowa | 34 | #114 | #127 |
| Ohio | 115 | #117 | #127 |
| Montana | 11 | #118 | #135 |
| Minnesota | 53 | #120 | #97 |
| Connecticut | 31 | #122 | #119 |
| Alabama | 43 | #126 | #181 |
| Nebraska | 21 | #127 | #93 |
| Arizona | 69 | #128 | #121 |
| New Mexico | 15 | #130 | #194 |
| Virginia | 67 | #133 | #125 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #137 | #240 |
| Nevada | 23 | #137 | #101 |
| Maryland | 42 | #142 | #168 |
| Massachusetts | 51 | #142 | #91 |
| Colorado | 50 | #145 | #149 |
| Idaho | 18 | #155 | #175 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #155 | #172 |
| Washington | 54 | #155 | #104 |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #165 | #209 |
| Illinois | 71 | #166 | #160 |
| Oregon | 25 | #167 | #85 |
| New York | 112 | #171 | #166 |
| Texas | 205 | #182 | #262 |
| Florida | 122 | #182 | #193 |
| Georgia | 62 | #198 | #212 |
| California | 186 | #200 | #140 |
| New Jersey | 46 | #207 | #157 |
| Louisiana | 25 | #208 | #298 |
| Utah | 24 | #215 | #156 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #295 | #236 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,803 | 2,609 | #137 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,516 | 3,036 | #118 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,144 | 3,488 | #102 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,505 | 4,079 | #85 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,654 | 4,309 | #80 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,357 | 4,406 | #79 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,203 | 4,674 | #77 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,177 | 4,252 | #91 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,494 | 3,932 | #100 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,880 | 3,284 | #128 |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,154 | 2,854 | #144 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,293 | 2,600 | #160 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,667 | 2,236 | #181 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,495 | 1,823 | #208 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,953 | 1,664 | #210 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,336 | 1,229 | #277 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,906 | 1,005 | #317 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,347 | 811 | #378 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,353 | 779 | #389 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,436 | 668 | #425 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,030 | 513 | #486 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,461 | 465 | #516 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,346 | 403 | #556 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,434 | 318 | #620 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,917 | 306 | #620 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,947 | 233 | #738 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,741 | 223 | #731 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,862 | 239 | #700 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,603 | 242 | #674 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,318 | 222 | #712 |
| 1995 | — | — | 243 | #680 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,294 | 229 | #688 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,024 | 235 | #672 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,924 | 205 | #722 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,029 | 278 | #613 |
| 1990 | — | — | 233 | #660 |
| 1989 | — | — | 230 | #660 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,956 | 260 | #573 |
| 1987 | — | — | 294 | #522 |
| 1986 | — | — | 368 | #455 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,775 | 422 | #415 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,656 | 369 | #436 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,891 | 328 | #462 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,662 | 129 | #778 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,019 | 91 | #942 |
| 1980 | — | — | 80 | #1,014 |
| 1979 | — | — | 84 | #970 |
| 1978 | — | — | 67 | #1,062 |
| 1977 | — | — | 90 | #897 |
| 1976 | — | — | 78 | #944 |
| 1975 | — | — | 75 | #948 |
| 1974 | — | — | 77 | #932 |
| 1973 | — | — | 75 | #933 |
| 1972 | — | — | 73 | #946 |
| 1971 | — | — | 69 | #982 |
| 1970 | — | — | 57 | #1,086 |
| 1969 | — | — | 65 | #952 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,756 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,196 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,999 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,412 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,803 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,465 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,789 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,486 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,144 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,321 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,112 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,525 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,453 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,931 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,502 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,992 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,065 |
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).