Jaymes
Jaymes is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 755th, in 1986.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1986144 births
- Best rank
- #755in 1986
- Since 1950
- 2,551people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,414 boys have been named Jaymes in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 144 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1980s alone account for 26%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 137 girls have also been given it, 5.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1986, its biggest year
Jaymes was the 755th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1986 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Jaymes
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mychaelpeak 1989
- Rynepeak 1985
- Jerellpeak 1988
- Jamariopeak 1989
- Deangelopeak 1990
- Martellpeak 1986
- Jarelpeak 1990
- Chazpeak 1988
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.