girls:
125 births since 2001
#5591 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1950
#2588 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1950
#5325 (31st percentile)
The name Jaymes is the #5,325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,517 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 31.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,588 (43.5% percentile) for all time with 2,392 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,591 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 125 births since 2001.
Jaymes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Jaymes is available in 63 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 16 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 Jaymes has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 71.4% of babies named Jaymes were boys.
For boys, Jaymes reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 19.6% percentile (ranked #567) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 75 births per million (ranked 19.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jaymes ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 14.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jaymes reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #947) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jaymes ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 59.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaymes".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jaymes. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Jaymes is pronounced as jaymz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jayms, at 10.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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