Jameson

What Jameson means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jameson yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jameson?

US: Steady: #144 in 2015, #137 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1236 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 4,674 boys got the name (#77 that year). First in the US records in 1922.

How common

• About 1 in 655 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 10,072 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (8.26 per 1,000 boys), VT (5.78 per 1,000 boys), NH (5.33 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jameson is #137 in the US and #1093 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.2% of US babies named Jameson were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jamison324 US
• Jaymeson13 US
• Jamesyn11 US
• Jameison6 US
• Jamesen6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jameson

Boys

• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Lincoln#69“the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Callen#516Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #516 vs #2,952 in 2025

For a sister

• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jameson’s. Rank is US 2025.