Jamey

Where Jamey comes from

Jamey hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,430 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #369
    430 babies named Jamey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1977
    Jamey Jasta born
    American vocalist
  4. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #640.
  5. 1997
    Jamey Rodemeyer born
    American blogger
  6. 2012
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jamey Jasta · American vocalist, born 1977
  • Jamey Rodemeyer · American blogger, 1997–2011
  • Jamey Johnson · American country musician, born 1975
  • Jamey Aebersold · American musician, born 1939
  • Jamey Carroll · former baseball infielder from the United States, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.