Jamell
Last seen for girls in 1984 at #9,144 · #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
Given to boys 96.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,165since 1971
Jamell over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamell has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,857 | 20 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,312 | 9 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,742 | 21 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,442 | 23 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,032 | 14 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,770 | 15 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,889 | 27 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,124 | 18 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,882 | 27 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,787 | 27 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,000 | 38 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,399 | 32 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,717 | 45 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,090 | 37 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,477 | 49 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,399 | 48 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,489 | 44 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,685 | 35 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,864 | 32 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,330 | 41 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,199 | 42 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,599 | 32 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,164 | 40 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,380 | 33 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,977 | 42 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,792 | 47 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,472 | 62 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,359 | 69 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,287 | 74 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,258 | 74 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,204 | 71 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,153 | 69 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,174 | 65 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,125 | 68 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,134 | 64 |
| 1983 | — | #1,327 | 49 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,217 | 58 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1980 | — | #1,154 | 62 | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #1,390 | 45 |
| 1978 | — | #1,186 | 56 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,367 | 44 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #1,411 | 40 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #2,199 | 19 |
| 1973 | — | #2,124 | 19 | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #2,813 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamell! It came in at #2,813, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2024, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamell is popular in 1971
No state had 5 or more boys named Jamell in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jamell
- 3,455 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #4,857)
- 184 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #4,857)
- 975 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #4,857)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1985 at #1,125 (68 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,962 boys born in 1988 were named Jamell (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,125 in 1985, was only 1 in 27,180 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.2% of all boys named Jamell (632) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 278 | #1,186 (1978) | #1,835 |
| 1980s | 632 | #1,125 (1985) | #1,202 |
| 1990s | 474 | #1,287 (1990) | #1,958 |
| 2000s | 397 | #2,330 (2000) | #2,730 |
| 2010s | 279 | #2,682 (2010) | #4,026 |
| 2020s | 105 | #4,442 (2022) | #5,571 |
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.
Jamell in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 332,765 of them was named Jamell, which outranked 13.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,321 names at #8,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 147,371 of them was named Jamell, which outranked 50.3% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,686Vincient13
- #2,686Waverly13
- #2,686Woodie13
- #2,813Jamell12
- #2,813Abdullah12
- #2,813Abran12
- #2,813Acie12
- #2,973Algie11
- #2,973Amanda11
- #2,973Ames11
Tied with 159 names at #2,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.