Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jameson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jameson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jameson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jameson” 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
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1966 16 0.000004603 16 -100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 -100%
1969 65 0.000018703 65 -100%
1970 58 0.000016082 58 -100%
1971 69 0.000020103 69 -100%
1972 73 0.000023226 73 -100%
1973 75 0.00002486 75 -100%
1974 77 0.000025329 77 -100%
1975 75 0.000024839 75 -100%
1976 78 0.000025706 78 -100%
1977 90 0.000028333 90 -100%
1978 67 0.00002111 67 -100%
1979 84 0.000025248 84 -100%
1980 80 0.000023225 80 -100%
1981 94 0.000027173 5 89 -89%
1982 135 0.000038484 6 129 -91%
1983 333 0.00009615 5 328 -97%
1984 377 0.000108061 8 369 -96%
1985 428 0.000119918 6 422 -97%
1986 368 0.000103456 368 -100%
1987 294 0.00008154 294 -100%
1988 269 0.0000728 9 260 -93%
1989 230 0.000059827 230 -100%
1990 233 0.00005895 233 -100%
1991 283 0.000072652 5 278 -96%
1992 212 0.00005519 7 205 -93%
1993 244 0.000064717 9 235 -93%
1994 234 0.000062943 5 229 -96%
1995 243 0.000066354 243 -100%
1996 234 0.000064159 12 222 -90%
1997 252 0.000069503 10 242 -92%
1998 249 0.000067696 10 239 -92%
1999 231 0.000062536 8 223 -93%
2000 248 0.00006561 15 233 -88%
2001 325 0.00008682 19 306 -88%
2002 346 0.000092556 28 318 -84%
2003 433 0.000113878 30 403 -86%
2004 508 0.000132952 43 465 -83%
2005 566 0.00014721 53 513 -81%
2006 715 0.000180729 47 668 -87%
2007 829 0.00020737 50 779 -88%
2008 861 0.000219047 50 811 -88%
2009 1045 0.000273548 40 1005 -92%
2010 1278 0.000345804 49 1229 -92%
2011 1702 0.000465308 38 1664 -96%
2012 1869 0.000511023 46 1823 -95%
2013 2278 0.000624851 42 2236 -96%
2014 2649 0.000714714 49 2600 -96%
2015 2907 0.000785482 53 2854 -96%
2016 3342 0.00091095 59 3283 -96%
2017 4004 0.001119626 72 3932 -96%
2018 4303 0.00122387 51 4252 -98%
2019 4707 0.00135612 34 4673 -99%
2020 4450 0.001332105 46 4404 -98%
2021 4367 0.00128898 65 4302 -97%
2022 4120 0.001217805 45 4075 -98%
2023 3519 0.001062758 35 3484 -98%
2024 3048 0.000915728 23 3025 -98%

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  5. Jamesmichael
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