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Jamin

#3,402 in 2025Boys' name

Right hand or right side

Jamin has been given to 3,584 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #3,402 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Jamin, 2025

1 in 97,500

Jamin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamin: meaning, origin, and history

Right hand or right side

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamin means

Jamin means “right hand or right side”, associated with yamin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jamin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jamin is used in English.

Jamin comes through Hebrew יָמִין.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,446 boys were recorded with the name Jamin between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1979; its best national rank was #746 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,608 in 2020 to #3,402 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,698 in 2015 to #3,402 in 2025.

In the United States, 138 girls were recorded with the name Jamin between 1976 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1986; its best national rank was #5,900 in 1986.

How common is Jamin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,402
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamin 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamin was born before 1994 — so the typical Jamin is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,446
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (832).

Is Jamin 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
−105
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−704
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.2%
Peak was 1979 (135)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#746
1979

Spellings of Jamin

Jamin is not the most common spelling — James is, with 68.3% against Jamin's 0.04%.

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 Jamin is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamin was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 125,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Jamin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamin around the world

Where Jamin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2013
    #5,520
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1966–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jamin

People whose public names include Jamin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jamin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,402
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 206
Best rank ever
#746
1979
Peak year
1979
135 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,446
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,900
1986
Peak year
1986
12 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
138
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamin

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

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Names with a curve like Jamin

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

AnwarDimitriosJameelTrinityTavaresRashidLashawnRamoneKedrickSharifKhristopherRyon

Sibling names for Jamin

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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