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Jomo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jomo has been given to 355 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1970, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Jomo, 2001

1 in 624,000

Jomo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jomo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jomo means

Jomo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jomo is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 boys were recorded with the name Jomo between 1960 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,506 in 1970.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jomo?

Jomo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 624,000
6 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
432,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jomo 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 2001 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 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jomo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jomos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jomo was born before 1975 — so the typical Jomo is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
66.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 66.2% of all recorded uses (235).

Is Jomo 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (32)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,506
1970

Spellings of Jomo

Jomo is not the most common spelling — John is, with 72.3% against Jomo'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 Jomo is used

Across 1910–2025, Jomo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 717,802 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Jomo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jomo 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
#1,506
1970
Peak year
1970
32 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jomo

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

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Sibling names for Jomo

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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