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Jamison: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 324 in 2025. Its best rank was #408 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #408 in 1973; #786 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Jamison in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#786 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #408.
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Jamison: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 324 boys in 2025. Peak: #408 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 712 (2017).
In 2025, 324 US boys were named Jamison, making it the 786th most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #759 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 335 boys named Jamison in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #408, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 712, in 2017. For comparison, it was #446 in 2015 and #3,170 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamison in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 5 babies. In all, 22,740 US babies have been given the name, 8.5% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,777 babies named Jamison.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,516 US boys were named Jamison; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 712. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,272 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamison ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #314 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jameson (63,091 babies since 1880) and Jami (22,410 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Jamison 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 6 | #314 | #308 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #357 | #353 |
| Kansas | 9 | #409 | #367 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #413 | #277 |
| Ohio | 24 | #446 | #381 |
| Indiana | 15 | #465 | #465 |
| Missouri | 13 | #470 | #316 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #493 | #350 |
| Michigan | 16 | #525 | #371 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #587 | #543 |
| Colorado | 9 | #592 | #327 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #592 | #304 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #594 | #408 |
| Iowa | 5 | #617 | #254 |
| Alabama | 7 | #647 | #352 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #676 | #395 |
| Illinois | 13 | #692 | #659 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #693 | #362 |
| Utah | 5 | #749 | #328 |
| Virginia | 9 | #762 | #394 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #835 | #369 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #842 | #295 |
| Arizona | 6 | #882 | #472 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,225 | #552 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,232 | #630 |
| New York | 9 | #1,245 | #781 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,279 | #381 |
| California | 12 | #1,471 | #754 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,572 | 324 | #786 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,517 | 335 | #759 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,518 | 416 | #658 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,836 | 486 | #590 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,307 | 563 | #522 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,489 | 622 | #479 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,103 | 704 | #435 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,495 | 675 | #446 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,508 | 712 | #436 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,883 | 679 | #456 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,452 | 690 | #446 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,345 | 689 | #441 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,879 | 615 | #458 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,396 | 538 | #496 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,517 | 527 | #496 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,059 | 518 | #499 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,267 | 480 | #551 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,563 | 508 | #528 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,407 | 523 | #504 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,382 | 473 | #533 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,864 | 433 | #553 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,051 | 392 | #575 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,879 | 375 | #585 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,210 | 298 | #645 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,137 | 325 | #605 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,832 | 291 | #630 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,015 | 266 | #651 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,862 | 309 | #601 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,790 | 245 | #668 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,579 | 219 | #719 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,743 | 225 | #707 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,935 | 241 | #670 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,892 | 245 | #657 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,434 | 251 | #654 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,883 | 280 | #608 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,647 | 232 | #662 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,126 | 245 | #639 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,924 | 240 | #611 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,720 | 227 | #602 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,424 | 254 | #558 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,770 | 266 | #534 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,571 | 230 | #564 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,588 | 187 | #625 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,589 | 179 | #649 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,283 | 179 | #636 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,657 | 183 | #642 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,488 | 218 | #578 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,691 | 172 | #636 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,211 | 202 | #594 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,749 | 266 | #486 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,686 | 275 | #485 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,073 | 347 | #420 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,047 | 364 | #408 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,625 | 226 | #527 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,230 | 175 | #627 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,011 | 195 | #577 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,196 | 121 | #713 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,535 | 36 | #1,268 |
| 1967 | — | — | 30 | #1,395 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,469 | 26 | #1,527 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,996 | 25 | #1,575 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,175 | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #2,002 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,232 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,967 | 12 | #2,471 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,791 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,740 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,669 | 20 | #1,798 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,687 | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,281 | 7 | #3,351 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,085 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,526 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,454 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,972 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,957 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,170 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,503 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,040 |
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).