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Jamese

The girl's name Jamese has been in the national records since 1968, with 775 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 760 Jameses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jamese

By the numbers

Total US births
775
Estimated living today
760
Median age today
31
Peak year
1998
Best rank
3,730th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1968

How old the living Jameses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 775 babies given the name since 1968, about 760 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jamese is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jamese is most concentrated in Alabama (25.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular girls’ names the year Jamese peaked:

All the names of 1998

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Jamese against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.