Jameson
Jameson is ranked 117th among boys in 2024 (3,025 births). Its best rank was 77th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #117down 15 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,0250.18% of boys
- Peak year
- 20194,673 births
- Best rank
- #77in 2019
- Since 1922
- 60,430people given the name
The story in the numbers
59,243 boys have been named Jameson in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 4,673 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 160 → 117).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 48%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,187 girls have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jameson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 53 | |
| 1960s | 172 | |
| 1970s | 746 | |
| 1980s | 2,569 | |
| 1990s | 2,349 | |
| 2000s | 5,501 | |
| 2010s | 28,546 | |
| 2020s | 19,290 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Jameson was the 77th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Jameson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jensenpeak 2018
- Alisterpeak 2022
- Remingtonpeak 2019
- Masiahpeak 2022
- Alistairpeak 2024
- Kysonpeak 2023
- Benaiahpeak 2021
- Massiahpeak 2021
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.