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Jamarion vs Jameson

American parents have registered 63,091 Jamesons since 1880, against 7,632 Jamarions. Jameson is still ahead, with 2,630 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamarion against Jameson, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamarion Jameson

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Jameson for 74 years and Jamarion for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jamarion Jameson
Total US births 7,63263,091
Most in one year 6404,708
Babies in 2025 902,630
Estimated living today 7,50062,000
Median age today 168
Peak year 20052019
Best rank 418th boys77th boys
Rank in 2025 1,778th137th
First recorded 19851922
Girls / boys 0 / 7,6321,208 / 61,883

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jamarions alive today are over 16; half the Jamesons are over 8. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jamarion and Jameson.