Jamison

At the 2020 census, 26,400 Americans bore the surname Jamison — 1,307th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,300.

By the numbers

People: 26,400
Rank: 1,307th
How common: 1 in 11,300
Per 100,000: 8.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

"son of Jamie".

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jamison described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 54.8%
Black, not Hispanic 35.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Jamison

Antawn Jamison (born 1976)American basketball player
Herbert Jamison (1875–1938)American sprinter
Jimi Jamison (1951–2014)American singer
Bud Jamison (1894–1944)Actor
Kay Redfield Jamison (born 1946)American bipolar disorder researcher
Judith Jamison (1943–2024)American dancer and choreographer

People named Jamison with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jamison

Also a first name

Jamison has been given to 22,740 American babies as a first name since 1931, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.