Jamarie
Masculine
Jamarie is given to both — 643 boys and 113 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Jamarie can be cut in two places, and both cuts make sense. Divide it after the r and it is Jamar with a soft ending added. Divide it after the a and it is the free Ja- syllable joined to Marie. Nothing in the record chooses between them, and that ambiguity is not a flaw in the name — it is the reason the name works for boys and girls at once.
How old is the name Jamarie?
Jamarie first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Jamarie alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Jamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamarie most popular?
Jamarie peaked in 2009, reaching #2528 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 9,480 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Jamarie
The Ja- opening became a standing element in American naming in the second half of the twentieth century — freely combinable, attaching to almost any second part and producing names that were new but never strange. Jamar was one of the shapes it settled into, and Jamarie is what happens when a soft ending is added to it, the same softening that turns Jamar into Jamari. At the same time Marie has been an available second element in American names for even longer. Two habits met at the same spelling, and the result is a name that reads as a boy's name to some readers and a girl's to others without either being wrong.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No single meaning can be given, because there is no single derivation. If the second half is Marie, then that name goes back through Latin Maria to the Hebrew Miryam, whose own meaning has been argued over for centuries and never settled. If the base is Jamar, an American formation, then there is no dictionary word underneath at all. Either way the honest answer is that this one is made of sound.
Pronouncing Jamarie
juh-MAR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle, and the final syllable is a plain ee. Some families put the weight on the front instead — JAM-uh-ree — but the middle-stress version is much the commoner.
Nicknames for Jamarie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 200950 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2528reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −58.3%5 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jamaries among us
people named Jamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Jamarie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hani test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamarie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hani climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hani's path sketches the road Jamarie is walking now.
Jamarie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jamarie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamarie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both ways of reading the name land on the same sound, so nobody has to decide anything out loud.
- It shortens at either end, and the two short forms have quite different characters.
- It is carried by boys and girls, which gives a family room that most names do not offer.
- Marie is read as a woman's name by nearly every adult, and nearly every child given this spelling is a boy; that gap will show up on rosters and forms before anyone can explain it.
- It competes with Jamari, Jamarri and Jamaree for the same sound, so the spelling will be asked for every time.
- The stress placement is not fixed, and a child will hear both versions of their own name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jamaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jamarie in 2025?
- Jamarie ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamarie?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Jamarie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamarie with classmates?
- Jamarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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