How Many People Are Named Jaymes?
people named Jaymes are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 138,039 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,567 babies named Jaymes in Social Security records from 1950 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
144 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of JAMES.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jaymes in English. Counting Jaymes and these spellings together, about 2,935,643 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Jaymes, 5.5% were girls and 94.5% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Jaymes rose from 0% in the 1980s to 25.9% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jaymes alive today is about 26 years old, and 54% are under 30. Half of them were between 15 and 37 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jaymes first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 1986, to 144 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Jaymes has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #755, in 1986. In 2025 it ranked #5,972.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,972 |
| Best rank | #755 (1986) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,214 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jaymes alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jaymes were born in California than in any other state: about 203 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jaymes was given 2.7 times as often in California and 2.3 times in Texas.
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