Jamaica
Jamaica is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197761 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 1,569people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,532 girls have been named Jamaica in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 61 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 32%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 37 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Jamaica was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Jamaica
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Akilahpeak 1993
- Brookpeak 1980
- Kaishapeak 1998
- Chasitypeak 1976
- Nishapeak 1984
- Rebekahpeak 1996
- Chasidypeak 1990
- Aieshapeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.