Jamon
Last seen for girls in 1978 at #8,562 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,742since 1964
Jamon over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamon 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 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,443 | 17 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,075 | 19 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,951 | 19 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,891 | 27 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,864 | 26 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,663 | 45 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,354 | 54 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,050 | 67 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,981 | 71 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,769 | 78 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,595 | 86 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,731 | 73 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,513 | 85 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,772 | 65 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,472 | 83 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,541 | 78 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,294 | 94 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,322 | 90 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,480 | 68 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,491 | 64 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,296 | 81 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,431 | 66 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,677 | 51 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,699 | 48 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,395 | 64 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,658 | 47 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,671 | 42 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,400 | 52 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,873 | 32 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,226 | 24 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,251 | 54 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,327 | 49 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,242 | 56 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,169 | 62 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,145 | 63 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,128 | 63 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,087 | 64 |
| 1977 | — | #1,210 | 53 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,190 | 52 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,290 | 43 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,366 | 16 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamon! It came in at #3,601, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jamon
- 2,236 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #7,679)
- 3,139 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #7,679)
- 4,713 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1978 at #1,087 (64 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,427 boys born in 1999 were named Jamon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,087 in 1978, was only 1 in 25,654 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.5% of all boys named Jamon (755) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,790 |
| 1970s | 374 | #1,087 (1978) | #1,653 |
| 1980s | 481 | #1,145 (1980) | #1,496 |
| 1990s | 689 | #1,294 (1999) | #1,468 |
| 2000s | 755 | #1,472 (2001) | #1,744 |
| 2010s | 329 | #2,354 (2010) | #3,526 |
| 2020s | 96 | #4,540 (2020) | #5,840 |
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.
Jamon in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 255,310 of them was named Jamon, which outranked 25.4% 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).
- #7,649Yomaira7
- #7,649Yoshika7
- #7,649Yumeka7
- #8,562Jamon6
- #8,562Aba6
- #8,562Adama6
- #8,562Adebola6
- #9,750Abena5
- #9,750Abigayle5
- #9,750Abrian5
Tied with 1,187 names at #8,562; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 25,654 of them was named Jamon, which outranked 83.9% 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).
- #1,079Marcellus65
- #1,079Maria65
- #1,079Yusuf65
- #1,087Jamon64
- #1,087Benji64
- #1,087Emery64
- #1,087Emory64
- #1,099Chandler63
- #1,099Ezequiel63
- #1,099Graig63
Tied with 11 names at #1,087; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.