Names/J

Jamar

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Jamar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 101 births. Its best rank was 361st, in 1982.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1010.01% of boys
Peak year
1989595 births
Best rank
#361in 1982
Since 1967
15,892people given the name
Babies named Jamar, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

15,892 boys have been named Jamar in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 595 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1980s alone account for 31%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Jamar
1960s30
1970s1,709
1980s4,951
1990s3,437
2000s3,164
2010s2,046
2020s555

In 1989, its biggest year

Jamar was the 376th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.

Names that rose and fell with Jamar

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.