Jamye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jamye has been given to 847 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 39 recorded.
Babies named Jamye, 2012
1 in 457,000
Jamye 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jamye?
Jamye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 457,000
- 8 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 220,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 316,907 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jamye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 316,907 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jamyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamye was born before 1979 — so the typical Jamye is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 25.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 830
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (210).
Is Jamye 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (39)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jamye
Jamye is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 34.0% against Jamye'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 Jamye is used
Across 1910–2025, Jamye was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 180,602 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
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. Jamye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jamye around the world
Where Jamye 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.
- South Australia1981–1993#519in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jamye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jamye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jamye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.