How Many People Are Named Jayme?

17,025

people named Jayme are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 20,075 people in the US has this name

Based on 17,968 babies named Jayme in Social Security records from 1938 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,774

💎 Rare

Rank Among Gender-Neutral Names

#87

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Peak Year

1985

696 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JAY-mee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of JAMIE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jayme in English. Counting Jayme and these spellings together, about 27,052 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
78.9%
Male
21.1%

Of the babies given the name Jayme, 78.9% were girls and 21.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Jayme fell from 85.7% in the 1940s to 55.2% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jayme alive today is about 39 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 48 in 2025.

Under 30 4,181
24.6%
30 to 59 11,438
67.2%
60 and over 1,405
8.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jayme first appears in the records in 1938 and was given most often in 1985, to 696 babies. In 2025, 28 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1938 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Jayme has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #383, in 1985. In 2025 it ranked #7,644. Among boys, its best rank was #745, in 1976.

GirlsBoys
Rank in 2025#7,644#6,253
Best rank#383 (1985)#745 (1976)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#469 in the 1980s#852 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jayme alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jayme were born in California than in any other state: about 1,715 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jayme was given 2.2 times as often in Oklahoma, 1.9 times in Kansas and 1.7 times in Washington.

California 1,715
Texas 1,104
Pennsylvania 766
Ohio 647
Illinois 610
New York 595
Michigan 446
Florida 415
Wisconsin 358
Washington 341
Indiana 339
Minnesota 318
Missouri 306
Oklahoma 288
Arizona 214
Kansas 197
Iowa 197
Colorado 178
New Jersey 172
Massachusetts 159
Georgia 137
North Carolina 137
Arkansas 119
Oregon 112
Kentucky 103
Tennessee 103
Louisiana 103
Nebraska 86
Maryland 75
Virginia 71
Utah 47
North Dakota 40
New Mexico 37
Connecticut 28
West Virginia 27
Nevada 25
Montana 23
Alabama 22
Idaho 22
Hawaii 20
Alaska 20
South Dakota 20
Mississippi 19
Maine 19
South Carolina 18
Wyoming 11
New Hampshire 5

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