Jamez
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JAYMZ
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Jamez is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “held by the heel”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Jamez mean?
Hebrew: respelling of James, from Jacob
“held by the heel”
A respelling of James, which comes from Jacob, the biblical patriarch said to be born holding his twin's heel.
Is Jamez a girl's or a boy's name?
Jamez is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jamez in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Jamez, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the boys named Jamez in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 11,966 boys in the US were given Jamez or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #9, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Jamez in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 20 | #4,709 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,461 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,891 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,790 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,376 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,033 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,537 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,241 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,449 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,572 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,259 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,114 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,549 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,115 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,198 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,981 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,153 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,282 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,871 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,426 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,797 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,220 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,228 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,468 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,303 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,158 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,962 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,920 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,517 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,557 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,481 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,260 |
Nicknames for Jamez
Names like Jamez
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Zamir, Zayd, Hamza, Ibrahim, Muhammad, Zahir, Jamir, Saif, Ahmad, Abdullah, Amir
Other spellings of Jamez
Names related to Jamez
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jamez: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jamez, updated 20 October 2026.