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How popular is “Jamese” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamese” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jamese” 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 “Jamese” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jamese” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamese” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 100%
1989 27 0.000007023 27 100%
1990 25 0.000006325 25 100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 100%
1992 28 0.000007289 28 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 100%
1998 31 0.000008428 31 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 19 0.000005076 19 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%

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