Jamie
Jamie is ranked 716th among girls in 2024 (391 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1976–1977.
- Rank in 2024
- #716up 67 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3910.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 197712,895 births
- Best rank
- #18first in 1976
- Since 1884
- 358,757people given the name
The story in the numbers
270,619 girls have been named Jamie in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 12,895 births — 0.84% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 391 births in 2024, against 12,895 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 36%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Jamie is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are boys (88,138), most of them born around 1976.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jamie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 103 | |
| 1900s | 171 | |
| 1910s | 430 | |
| 1920s | 608 | |
| 1930s | 583 | |
| 1940s | 2,228 | |
| 1950s | 10,174 | |
| 1960s | 25,694 | |
| 1970s | 67,845 | |
| 1980s | 96,558 | |
| 1990s | 41,443 | |
| 2000s | 16,503 | |
| 2010s | 6,307 | |
| 2020s | 1,957 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Jamie was the 18th most given girl’s name 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 Jamie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shastapeak 1979
- Shaunnapeak 1978
- Latrishapeak 1979
- Shavonnepeak 1979
- Jaimipeak 1976
- Marlanapeak 1978
- Shannapeak 1978
- Megganpeak 1985
Other spellings in the data
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.