Jamison
Meaning
surname meaning 'son of James'
The story
Jamison is an English surname meaning "son of James", worn as a first name long enough to stop feeling borrowed. American records show a slow warm-up and a modern arrival: about 118 boys in the 1950s, about 2,400 in the 1970s, about 4,100 in the 2000s, about 6,300 in the 2010s, and about 2,700 so far this decade, with a thin steady line of girls alongside. Brazil knows it too, roughly 1,900 in the census, most of them named in the 1980s and 1990s. It delivers James, one of the great bedrock names, with a surname finish, a formal weight of its own, and the built-in nickname Jamie. Son of James, literally; heir of James, practically, and the father name is doing fine upstairs.
Jamison around the world
One shared root links 18 names across 5 languages.
Shared root: from Hebrew Ya'aqov, traditionally "holder of the heel, supplanter"; Late Latin split it into Jacobus and Iacomus, giving Europe both Jacob and James
The constellation
11 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jamison peaked in the 2010s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
1,962 people · the #5,181 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 100,000 · median age 28
Among people named Jamison living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 23 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Jamison
Most people given the name Jamison in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Jamison deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Jamison truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Jamison fits with your family’s names and surname.
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