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How popular is “Jamey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jamey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamey” 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
1944 10 0.000003717 5 5 0%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 15 0.000004164 7 8 -7%
1948 11 0.000003186 6 5 9%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 100%
1950 24 0.000006851 18 6 50%
1951 28 0.000007601 22 6 57%
1952 23 0.000006056 12 11 4%
1953 22 0.000005709 13 9 18%
1954 39 0.000009797 27 12 38%
1955 36 0.000008966 18 18 0%
1956 35 0.000008489 14 21 -20%
1957 70 0.000016658 26 44 -26%
1958 89 0.000021529 30 59 -33%
1959 95 0.000022848 24 71 -49%
1960 92 0.000022148 29 63 -37%
1961 91 0.000021968 25 66 -45%
1962 121 0.000029985 35 86 -42%
1963 101 0.000025517 37 64 -27%
1964 105 0.000027009 25 80 -52%
1965 115 0.00003172 25 90 -57%
1966 100 0.000028772 36 64 -28%
1967 151 0.000044479 41 110 -46%
1968 158 0.000046768 44 114 -44%
1969 225 0.000064742 55 170 -51%
1970 356 0.00009871 62 294 -65%
1971 385 0.000112168 69 316 -64%
1972 449 0.000142857 62 387 -72%
1973 447 0.000148166 59 388 -74%
1974 460 0.000151316 66 394 -71%
1975 467 0.000154667 65 402 -72%
1976 576 0.00018983 146 430 -49%
1977 466 0.000146703 134 332 -42%
1978 342 0.000107755 102 240 -40%
1979 350 0.0001052 111 239 -37%
1980 270 0.000078386 86 184 -36%
1981 281 0.000081229 110 171 -22%
1982 203 0.000057868 88 115 -13%
1983 167 0.000048219 72 95 -14%
1984 171 0.000049015 58 113 -32%
1985 187 0.000052394 67 120 -28%
1986 136 0.000038234 60 76 -12%
1987 125 0.000034668 51 74 -18%
1988 123 0.000033288 52 71 -15%
1989 120 0.000031214 44 76 -27%
1990 114 0.000028843 45 69 -21%
1991 109 0.000027983 45 64 -17%
1992 132 0.000034364 63 69 -5%
1993 88 0.00002334 41 47 -7%
1994 99 0.00002663 41 58 -17%
1995 80 0.000021845 39 41 -3%
1996 87 0.000023854 38 49 -13%
1997 79 0.000021789 34 45 -14%
1998 69 0.000018759 41 28 19%
1999 54 0.000014619 26 28 -4%
2000 54 0.000014286 34 20 26%
2001 46 0.000012288 26 20 13%
2002 65 0.000017388 30 35 -8%
2003 54 0.000014202 32 22 19%
2004 54 0.000014133 36 18 33%
2005 57 0.000014825 31 26 9%
2006 50 0.000012638 28 22 12%
2007 51 0.000012757 32 19 25%
2008 54 0.000013738 22 32 -19%
2009 46 0.000012041 24 22 4%
2010 51 0.0000138 23 28 -10%
2011 39 0.000010662 24 15 23%
2012 25 0.000006836 10 15 -20%
2013 29 0.000007955 11 18 -24%
2014 23 0.000006206 10 13 -13%
2015 35 0.000009457 12 23 -31%
2016 37 0.000010085 18 19 -3%
2017 32 0.000008948 11 21 -31%
2018 34 0.00000967 8 26 -53%
2019 33 0.000009508 8 25 -52%
2020 30 0.00000898 7 23 -53%
2021 29 0.00000856 13 16 -10%
2022 21 0.000006207 21 -100%
2023 22 0.000006644 7 15 -36%
2024 26 0.000007811 6 20 -54%

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