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.
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 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 26,962 of them was named Jamell, which outranked 85.8% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,189Vanessa72
- #1,189Vidal72
- #1,189Wilbur72
- #1,204Jamell71
- #1,204Anson71
- #1,204Broc71
- #1,204Eleazar71
- #1,215Cliff70
- #1,215Errol70
- #1,215Franco70
Tied with 10 names at #1,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.