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Jamie

Unisex name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~337,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#857 among girls
Births in 2025
824 359,590 since 1880
Typical age
44 years, median

Jamie popularity over time

Jamie rank by birth year, 1884–2025Jamie ranked #1,024 in 1884 and #857 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #18, in 1976.#100#1,000#857best #18 in 197618901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1884–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1976: 17,160 births recorded as Jamie. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1884. It has held a top-100 place in 23 separate years.

In 2025 it ranked #857 with 824 births. Year on year the rank dropped by 139.

Babies named Jamie per yearPeaks at 17,160 births in 1976.17,160 in 1976018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Jamie?

About 337,700 people named Jamie are alive in the United States today. That is out of 359,590 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 257,600 women and 80,100 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Jamie?

Median age among living Jamies: 44. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Jamie a late 20th-century name.

Your Jamie

Ages of living people named JamieHalf of living Jamies are older than 44 and half younger.median 44020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Jamie is most common

The name is concentrated in Washington, at 1.5× the national rate. Maryland, Massachusetts and Utah follow.

Where Jamie is used more than average5 states use the name Jamie more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: 1.5× the national rateWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.4× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: 1.4× the national rateUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 1.5× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 1.5× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Jamie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Washington 237 1.5×
Maryland 172 1.5×
Massachusetts 186 1.5×
Utah 123 1.4×
New York 585 1.4×

Is Jamie a boy's or a girl's name?

75% girls25% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Jamie is genuinely unisex: over the last decade the split is close to even. Across the whole record, 75.3% of births under the name were girls.

Jamie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 212 births named Jamie in 2025, ranking it #245. That is 42% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Jamie comes from

A shortening of James ie.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Jamie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Jamie Foxx American actor, comedian, and singer 1967 82
Jamie Lee Curtis American actress and author 1958 80
Jamie Vardy English association football player 1987 67
Jamie Carragher English associiation football player and sportcaster 1978 65
Jamie Oliver British chef and media personality 1975 53
Jamie Dornan Northern Irish actor 1982 51
Jamie Lynn Spears American actress and singer 1991 50
Jamie Campbell Bower British actor 1988 50
Photo credits (6)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 8,806 in 1975 to 17,160 in 1976 — 1.9 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Jamie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Jamie was in 2025.

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