Jamy
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jamy has been given to 1,134 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1976, with 46 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.
Babies named Jamy, 2015
1 in 617,000
Jamy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jamy over time
In 2015, Jamy went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jamy?
Jamy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jamy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jamys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamy was born before 1982 — so the typical Jamy is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 29.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 750
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (221).
Is Jamy 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
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- 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 1976 (46)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Spellings of Jamy
Jamy is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 55.9% against Jamy's 0.01%.
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 Jamy is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Jamy was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,431,701 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jamy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Jamy is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Jamy was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,038,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 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. Jamy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jamy around the world
Where Jamy 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.
- France1948–1948#1,312in 1948
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Jamy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jamy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jamy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.