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Jamarcus

#3,986 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jamarcus has been given to 5,638 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,986 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 301 recorded.

Babies named Jamarcus, 2025

1 in 123,000

Jamarcus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamarcus: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamarcus means

Jamarcus is a given name.

The naming story behind Jamarcus

Wikidata records Jamarcus as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q131442005, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,638 boys were recorded with the name Jamarcus between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 301 in 2007; its best national rank was #736 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,355 in 2020 to #3,986 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,774 in 2015 to #3,986 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jamarcus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,986
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamarcus 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 2025 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamarcus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamarcuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamarcus was born before 2002 — so the typical Jamarcus is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,638
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (1,920).

Is Jamarcus 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
−803
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,631
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,212
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 2007 (301)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#736
1994

Spellings of Jamarcus

Jamarcus is not the most common spelling — Marcus is, with 87.6% against Jamarcus's 2.0%.

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 Jamarcus is used

Across 2016–2025, Jamarcus was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 14,166 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 4,348
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 6,250
  4. 4Georgia1 in 8,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Jamarcus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,986
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,631
Best rank ever
#736
1994
Peak year
2007
301 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,638
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Jamarcus

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

JamarionJamariusJamiesonDamarcusJamarianLamarcusJamaalJamisonJamichaelJamarioJameelDemarcusJamersonJamaineJameyJamauriJamellJamariJamilJamereJamariousJamareeJamelleJameer

Names with a curve like Jamarcus

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jamarcus, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jamarcus

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

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