Jamar

Last seen for girls in 1991 at #10,271 · #2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
1982 · 494 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
15,964
since 1967

Jamar over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jamar has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #360, 1982boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,05672
2024#1,661101
2023#1,576110
2022#1,611108
2021#1,424128
2020#1,534108
2019#1,365131
2018#1,276144
2017#1,153164
2016#993205
2015#1,046191
2014#1,014201
2013#894233
2012#857246
2011#832260
2010#801271
2009#759302
2008#721320
2007#746300
2006#647358
2005#706290
2004#638330
2003#686282
2002#618320
2001#575358
2000#617304
1999#652265
1998#656265
1997#645258
1996#664249
1995#631267
1994#567326
1993#525377
1992#494410
1991#10,2717#450477
1990#419543
1989#376595
1988#7,11110#375534
1987#7,3539#387496
1986#6,61210#368508
1985#404447
1984#8,1537#379461
1983#7,3128#366479
1982#360494
1981#10,4115#364480
1980#10,3925#377457
1979#404385
1978#7,6497#460303
1977#495270
1976#564206
1975#9,0675#630164
1974#82096
1973#751114
1972#760109
1971#1,18148
1970#2,50914
1969#1,91419
1968#3,6736
1967#3,9665
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five boys were named Jamar! It came in at #3,966, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

See more about Jamar
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 395 spots since 2024 (#1,661#2,056)
  • 522 spots since 2020 (#1,534#2,056)
  • 1,010 spots since 2015 (#1,046#2,056)
  • Biggest jump: 421 spots in 1972 (#1,181#760)
  • Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2017 (#993#1,153)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 1982 at #360 (494 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 30 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 43 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1972–2013
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,363
  • Highest: 1 in 3,363 boys born in 1989 were named Jamar (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #360 in 1982, was only 1 in 3,673 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 31.0% of all boys named Jamar (4,951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s30#1,914 (1969)#3,184
1970s1,709#404 (1979)#857
1980s4,951#360 (1982)#376
1990s3,437#419 (1990)#570
2000s3,164#575 (2001)#671
2010s2,046#801 (2010)#1,023
2020s627#1,424 (2021)#1,644

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jamar in 1978

girls
#7,649
7 births · 1 in 218,837 girls
boys
#460
303 births · 1 in 5,419 boys

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #7,649Jamar7

Top boys' names in 1978

  1. #1Michael67,127
  2. #2Jason51,600
  3. #3Christopher47,236
  4. #4David40,684
  5. #5James39,894
  6. #6Matthew34,282
  7. #7John34,014
  8. #8Robert33,374
  9. #9Brian29,432
  10. #10Joseph26,663
  11. #460Jamar303
More about 1978

girls

1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 218,837 of them was named Jamar, which outranked 33.3% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jamar
  1. #6,948Zenda8
  2. #6,948Zona8
  3. #6,948Zora8
  4. #7,649Jamar7
  5. #7,649Abi7
  6. #7,649Abigal7
  7. #7,649Abimbola7
  8. #8,562Aba6
  9. #8,562Adama6
  10. #8,562Adebola6

Tied with 912 names at #7,649; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 5,419 of them was named Jamar, which outranked 93.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jamar
  1. #457Kristoffer305
  2. #458Aron304
  3. #458Gustavo304
  4. #460Jamar303
  5. #460Donny303
  6. #460Kory303
  7. #460Myron303
  8. #464Zachariah302
  9. #465Everett301
  10. #466Graham298

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 3,237Dequan#4,164#927
  2. 626Nicholaus#1,367#741
  3. 617Nicklaus#1,515#898
  4. 578Zebulon#1,476#898
  5. 424Anwar#1,121#697
Fallers
  1. 674Kinte#834#1,508
  2. 668Kunta#572#1,240
  3. 417Telly#732#1,149
  4. 415Lesley#937#1,352
  5. 310Amin#904#1,214

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1978