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Jameson vs Jamonte

American parents have registered 63,091 Jamesons since 1880, against 773 Jamontes. Jameson is still ahead, with 2,630 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jameson against Jamonte, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jameson Jamonte

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

Jameson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1922 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Jameson had 244 and Jamonte had 33.

Side by side

  Jameson Jamonte
Total US births 63,091773
Most in one year 4,70833
Babies in 2025 2,6306
Estimated living today 62,000760
Median age today 823
Peak year 20191993
Best rank 77th boys2,295th boys
Rank in 2025 137th10,695th
First recorded 19221981
Girls / boys 1,208 / 61,8830 / 773

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jamontes alive today are over 23; half the Jamesons are over 8. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Jameson and Jamonte.