Jamaar

Boys' name

Variant of Jamar

Jamaar has been given to 617 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Jamaar, 2023

1 in 663,000

Jamaar over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamaar: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jamar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamaar means

Jamaar is a variant of Jamar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jamaar is used in African American (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒə.ˈmɑɹ/ and /d͡ʒə.ˈmɑː/ for Jamaar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 617 boys were recorded with the name Jamaar between 1972 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,498 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Jamaar?

Jamaar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jamaar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamaar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamaars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamaar was born before 1988 — so the typical Jamaar is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 30.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 617; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Jamaar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1982 (42)
Years since peak: 43; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,498; 1982

Spellings of Jamaar

Jamaar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 22.7% against Jamaar's 0.41%.

Lamar22.7%33,967
Jamal22.2%33,235
Jamar10.7%15,964
Jamari10.2%15,240
Jamir6.2%9,314
Jamaal5.7%8,542
Amar3.3%4,989
Ammar2.1%3,083

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jamaar is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamaar was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 987,368 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in —
2New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jamaar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamaar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,498; 1982
Peak year: 1982; 42 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 617
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jamaar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Jamire Jamian Jameir Jamien Jamare Jamiel Jamani Jamiah Jamoni Jamier Jamarie Jamez Jamarri Jamarr Jamall Jamori Jamonte Jameer Jamelle Jamaree Jamere Jamaris Jamell Jamauri

Sibling names for Jamaar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Eboni Lyndsay Shamika Afton Tanesha Christopher Kandi Matthew

For a brother

Donnell Chauncey Leopoldo Dusty Marques Wilfredo Antwan Cedric

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