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Jamisen

The boy's name Jamisen has been in the national records since 1988, with 584 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 580 Jamisens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Jamisen boys named Jamisen

Girls and boys called Jamisen

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Jamisen crossed from girls to boys in 2005, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 81% boys, and in 2018 it was 69%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
584
Estimated living today
580
Median age today
16
Peak year
2014
Best rank
3,617th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1988
Girls / boys
199 / 385

How old the living Jamisens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 584 babies given the name since 1988, about 580 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 Jamisen is most common

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

Names of 2014

The most popular boys’ names the year Jamisen peaked:

All the names of 2014

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Jamisen 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.