Jamison
Jamison is ranked 758th among boys in 2024 (335 births). Its best rank was 408th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- #758down 98 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3350.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017712 births
- Best rank
- #408in 1973
- Since 1931
- 22,398people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,467 boys have been named Jamison in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 712 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 441 → 758).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 31%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,931 girls have also been given it, 8.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jamison | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 118 | |
| 1960s | 333 | |
| 1970s | 2,440 | |
| 1980s | 2,190 | |
| 1990s | 2,513 | |
| 2000s | 4,098 | |
| 2010s | 6,346 | |
| 2020s | 2,418 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Jamison was the 435th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Jamison
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hashimpeak 2016
- Bronsonpeak 2015
- Brampeak 2016
- Ericksonpeak 2008
- Elanpeak 2011
- Francopeak 2016
- Salimpeak 2023
- Marwanpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.