Jame
Jame is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 806th, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195787 births
- Best rank
- #806in 1940
- Since 1903
- 3,833people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,430 boys have been named Jame in the United States since 1903, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 87 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 403 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jame | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 16 | |
| 1910s | 121 | |
| 1920s | 273 | |
| 1930s | 380 | |
| 1940s | 485 | |
| 1950s | 634 | |
| 1960s | 619 | |
| 1970s | 410 | |
| 1980s | 257 | |
| 1990s | 127 | |
| 2000s | 60 | |
| 2010s | 37 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Jame was the 810th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Jame
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kennethpeak 1957
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Teddypeak 1949
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Douglasspeak 1970
- Salpeak 1958
- Waymondpeak 1953
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.