Meaning not yet researched.
Jamon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,094 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,094 in 1978; #7,898 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,898 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,094.
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Jamon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,094 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 94 (1999).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Jamon, making it the 7,898th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,367 places from #5,531 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 17 boys named Jamon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,094, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 1999. For comparison, it was #2,996 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamon in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 2,748 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 755 babies named Jamon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US boys were named Jamon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamin (3,584 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 Jamon 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 | — | — | 10 | #7,898 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,531 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,144 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,299 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,311 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,608 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #5,038 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,932 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,826 |
| 2016 | — | — | 34 | #3,324 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,996 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,314 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,902 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,266 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,684 |
| 2010 | — | — | 54 | #2,365 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,061 |
| 2008 | — | — | 71 | #1,993 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,024 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,781 |
| 2005 | — | — | 86 | #1,598 |
| 2004 | — | — | 73 | #1,736 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,521 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,776 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,474 |
| 2000 | — | — | 78 | #1,547 |
| 1999 | — | — | 94 | #1,298 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,326 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,615 |
| 1996 | — | — | 68 | #1,490 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,498 |
| 1994 | — | — | 81 | #1,299 |
| 1993 | — | — | 66 | #1,438 |
| 1992 | — | — | 51 | #1,683 |
| 1991 | — | — | 48 | #1,711 |
| 1990 | — | — | 64 | #1,401 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,666 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,686 |
| 1987 | — | — | 52 | #1,412 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,892 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,252 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,256 |
| 1983 | — | — | 49 | #1,338 |
| 1982 | — | — | 56 | #1,249 |
| 1981 | — | — | 62 | #1,173 |
| 1980 | — | — | 63 | #1,150 |
| 1979 | — | — | 63 | #1,132 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,954 | 64 | #1,094 |
| 1977 | — | — | 53 | #1,216 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,199 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,726 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,301 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,951 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,477 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,407 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,241 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,672 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,500 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,805 |
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).