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Jamarie vs Jamison

American parents have registered 22,740 Jamisons since 1880, against 756 Jamaries. Jamison is still ahead, with 336 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamarie against Jamison, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamarie Jamison

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jamison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1931 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Jamarie had 50 and Jamison had 481.

Side by side

  Jamarie Jamison
Total US births 75622,740
Most in one year 58756
Babies in 2025 5336
Estimated living today 75022,000
Median age today 1718
Peak year 20092017
Best rank 2,528th boys436th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th785th
First recorded 19931931
Girls / boys 113 / 6431,944 / 20,796

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jamarie and Jamison.