Meaning not yet researched.
Jamey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #369 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #369 in 1976; #4,313 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Jamey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,313 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #369.
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Jamey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #369 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 430 (1976).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Jamey, making it the 4,313th most common boys’ name of the year, up 645 places from #4,958 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 20 boys named Jamey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #369, reached in 1976. That year also had the most boys given the name: 430. For comparison, it was #4,346 in 2015 and #3,489 in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jamey, making it the 12,448th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,752 places from #14,200 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Jamey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #904, reached in 1976. That year also had the most girls given the name: 146. For comparison, it was #9,180 in 2015 and #2,383 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamey in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 10 babies. In all, 9,808 US babies have been given the name, 31% of them girls and 69% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 4,298 babies named Jamey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 210 US boys were named Jamey; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamie (359,590 babies since 1880), Jami (22,410 babies since 1880), Jamya (5,576 babies since 1880) and Jaimee (4,613 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jameya, Jameah and Jameyah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to James and Jamie.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jameya (197), Jameah (189), Jameyah (80).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,448 | 24 | #4,313 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,200 | 20 | #4,958 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,695 | 15 | #6,052 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,772 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,224 | 16 | #5,644 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,702 | 23 | #4,331 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,811 | 25 | #4,166 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,870 | 26 | #4,045 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,584 | 21 | #4,658 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,756 | 19 | #5,021 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,180 | 23 | #4,346 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,479 | 13 | #6,448 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,860 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,769 | 15 | #5,825 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,627 | 15 | #5,795 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,864 | 28 | #3,753 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,775 | 22 | #4,494 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,230 | 32 | #3,450 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,610 | 19 | #4,884 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,014 | 22 | #4,290 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,413 | 26 | #3,659 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,936 | 18 | #4,674 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,142 | 22 | #3,894 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,218 | 35 | #2,719 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,609 | 20 | #4,031 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,766 | 20 | #3,984 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,370 | 28 | #2,971 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,080 | 28 | #2,887 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,394 | 45 | #2,005 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,109 | 49 | #1,852 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,992 | 41 | #2,039 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,900 | 58 | #1,590 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,904 | 47 | #1,807 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,136 | 69 | #1,365 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,678 | 64 | #1,424 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,614 | 69 | #1,341 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,585 | 76 | #1,234 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,196 | 71 | #1,208 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,139 | 74 | #1,117 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,873 | 76 | #1,069 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,717 | 120 | #814 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,844 | 113 | #824 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,555 | 95 | #907 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,388 | 115 | #830 |
| 1981 | 110 | #1,195 | 171 | #654 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,424 | 184 | #640 |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,189 | 239 | #556 |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,226 | 240 | #535 |
| 1977 | 134 | #1,005 | 332 | #436 |
| 1976 | 146 | #904 | 430 | #369 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,547 | 402 | #389 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,491 | 394 | #391 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,577 | 388 | #395 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,518 | 387 | #398 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,480 | 316 | #458 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,564 | 294 | #470 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,615 | 170 | #602 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,790 | 114 | #708 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,830 | 110 | #706 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,933 | 64 | #906 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,429 | 90 | #781 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,499 | 80 | #850 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,933 | 64 | #941 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,959 | 86 | #818 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,432 | 66 | #942 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,164 | 63 | #957 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,366 | 71 | #911 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,038 | 59 | #997 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,189 | 44 | #1,175 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,238 | 21 | #1,742 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,666 | 18 | #1,876 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,049 | 12 | #2,369 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,176 | 9 | #2,803 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,279 | 11 | #2,433 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,148 | 6 | #3,538 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,383 | 6 | #3,489 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,900 | 5 | #3,914 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,523 | 8 | #2,981 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,862 | 5 | #3,657 |
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).