Meaning not yet researched.
Jaymes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #755 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #755 in 1986; #5,975 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaymes in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,975 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #755.
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Jaymes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #755 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 144 (1986).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Jaymes, making it the 5,975th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,347 places from #4,628 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 22 boys named Jaymes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #755, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #2,827 in 2015 and #3,934 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaymes in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 2,567 US babies have been given the name, 5.3% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 626 babies named Jaymes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 272 US boys were named Jaymes; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jaime (121,558 babies since 1880), Santiago (103,965 babies since 1880) and Jayme (17,968 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 Jaymes 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,975 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,669 | 22 | #4,628 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,629 | 20 | #4,966 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,645 | 22 | #4,616 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,760 | 21 | #4,694 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,630 | 26 | #3,963 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,325 | 32 | #3,524 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,135 | 33 | #3,409 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,277 | 39 | #3,037 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,765 | 42 | #2,857 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,827 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,675 | 51 | #2,473 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,823 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,015 | 51 | #2,465 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,648 | 44 | #2,721 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,079 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,524 | 48 | #2,601 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,491 | 53 | #2,417 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,175 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,716 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,310 | 54 | #2,222 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,265 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,643 | 45 | #2,373 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,484 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,433 | 34 | #2,764 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,399 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,426 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,218 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,919 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,856 |
| 1995 | — | — | 59 | #1,580 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,622 |
| 1993 | — | — | 63 | #1,481 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,460 |
| 1991 | — | — | 112 | #1,019 |
| 1990 | — | — | 84 | #1,191 |
| 1989 | — | — | 81 | #1,189 |
| 1988 | — | — | 103 | #953 |
| 1987 | — | — | 124 | #840 |
| 1986 | — | — | 144 | #755 |
| 1985 | — | — | 113 | #848 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,357 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,301 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,031 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,713 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,886 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,667 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,712 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,358 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,242 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,775 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,999 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,564 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,688 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,051 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,561 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,752 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,217 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,437 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,823 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,732 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,934 |
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).