girls:
78 births since 1980
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1948
#3078 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1948
#6078 (21st percentile)
The name Jamieson is the #6,078 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,671 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,078 (32.8% percentile) for all time with 1,593 births since 1948. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1980.
Jamieson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Jamieson is available in 66 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 12 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 Jamieson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jamieson reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #614) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Jamieson ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 62.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jamieson reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamieson".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jamieson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.0% confident that Jamieson is pronounced as JAY-mih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-mee-suhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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