girls:
75 births since 1967
#5641 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1971
#2721 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1967
#5583 (28th percentile)
The name Jamell is the #5,583 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,210 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 27.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,721 (40.6% percentile) for all time with 2,135 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,641 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1967.
Jamell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Jamell is available in 54 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jamell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1971, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1967 to 1970), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.8% boys from 1971 to 2023).
For boys, Jamell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 9.7% percentile (ranked #684) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 35 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jamell ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 32.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jamell reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #737) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamell".
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