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Jamin

Jamin reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 745, and has been recorded 3,584 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,379th. About 3,400 Jamins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jamin boys named Jamin

By the numbers

Total US births
3,584
Estimated living today
3,400
Median age today
31
Peak year
1979
Best rank
745th
Rank in 2025
3,379th
First recorded
1964
Girls / boys
138 / 3,446

How old the living Jamins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,584 babies given the name since 1964, about 3,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. 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 the name comes from

From Hebrew יָמִין (“right hand or right side”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Jamin is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jamin is most concentrated in Indiana (4.5×), California (2.8×), Ohio (2.1×), Pennsylvania (1.7×).

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

Names of 1979

The most popular boys’ names the year Jamin peaked:

All the names of 1979

Jamin elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Jamin 15 5,520th
England and Wales boys Jamin 10 3,687th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jamin among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Jamin 7 14

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Jamin 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.