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How popular is “Jamaica” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamaica” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jamaica” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jamaica” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jamaica” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jamaica” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jamaica” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamaica” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1974 36 0.000011842 31 5 72%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 39 0.000012853 33 6 69%
1977 69 0.000021722 61 8 77%
1978 57 0.000017959 50 7 75%
1979 46 0.000013826 46 100%
1980 52 0.000015097 52 100%
1981 51 0.000014743 51 100%
1982 43 0.000012258 43 100%
1983 40 0.00001155 40 100%
1984 40 0.000011465 40 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 100%
1987 33 0.000009152 33 100%
1988 29 0.000007848 29 100%
1989 45 0.000011705 45 100%
1990 44 0.000011132 44 100%
1991 53 0.000013606 53 100%
1992 56 0.000014579 56 100%
1993 55 0.000014588 49 6 78%
1994 46 0.000012373 46 100%
1995 56 0.000015292 56 100%
1996 43 0.00001179 43 100%
1997 44 0.000012135 39 5 77%
1998 53 0.000014409 53 100%
1999 45 0.000012182 45 100%
2000 27 0.000007143 27 100%
2001 35 0.00000935 35 100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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  2. Jamahri
  3. Jamai
  4. Jamaia
  5. Jamaiah
  6. Jamaica (this page)
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  8. Jamaika
  9. Jamail
  10. Jamaile
  11. Jamain