girls:
73 births since 1975
#5643 (1st percentile)
boys:
15.8k births since 1967
#929 (80th percentile)
overall:
15.9k births since 1967
#2064 (73rd percentile)
The name Jamar is the #2,064 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,861 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 73.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #929 (79.7% percentile) for all time with 15,788 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,643 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 1975.
Jamar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1975 for girls).
The name Jamar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jamar reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 53.8% percentile (ranked #350) with 284 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 284 births per million (ranked 53.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jamar ranks #807 for boys (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jamar reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #803) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamar".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jamar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Jamar is pronounced as juh-MAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yah-MAHR, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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