Jamin
Masculine · “right hand”
Jamin is given to both — 3,446 boys and 138 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Jamin is a Hebrew name about the right hand, which in the biblical world was the side of strength and favor. It appears in Genesis as a son of Simeon.
How old is the name Jamin?
Jamin first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Jamin alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 3,300 people named Jamin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamin most popular?
Jamin peaked in 1979, reaching #745 nationally. Today it ranks #3379, 2,634 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yamin to Jamin
The story of Jamin
Yamin appears in the genealogies of Genesis and Numbers and again in Nehemiah, and it belongs to a small family of Hebrew names built on the word. The right hand carried real weight in the vocabulary: it meant strength, favor and the honored side, and Benjamin's name says the same thing at greater length. English Protestants took the name up after the Reformation, and it has been in quiet American use since.
Meaning
right hand
From Hebrew yamin, the right hand or the right side; the same word stands inside Benjamin, son of the right hand, and gives the biblical direction word for south, as the right hand of someone facing east.
How the name formed
- yamin
- Jamin
Related forms: Yamin · Benjamin · Yamin
Pronouncing Jamin
JAY-min
Two syllables, first stressed. Hebrew gives ya-MEEN, with the stress at the end and a y at the front.
Nicknames for Jamin
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
- 1964
- Most boys named
- 1979135 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #745reached in 1979
- Change vs 2024
- −5.6%34 in 2025, from 36
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.
Jamin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yamin in Hebrew — same name
- Benjamin in English — related form
- Yamin in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Indiana, Pennsylvania, California.
Jamins among us
people named Jamin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was named Jamin
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 Durwood test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Durwood climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Durwood's path sketches the road Jamin is walking now.
Jamin 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
Where Jamin is headed
Jamin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jamin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely interesting connection to Benjamin and to direction words.
- Five letters and two syllables, easy to write early.
- A documented biblical name rather than a modern coinage.
- Benjamin is far better known and this name will be assumed a shortening of it.
- The Hebrew and English pronunciations differ in stress and at the first letter.
- Jamin, Jaman and Jayman are close enough to be confused.
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Masculine · #3379 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jamins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Jamin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jamin in 2025?
- Jamin ranks #3379 among US boy names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamin?
- About 1 in every 50,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Jamin — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamin with classmates?
- Jamin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jamin
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