Jamar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Probably an altered spelling of the French surname Jamard, from the Germanic personal name Gamhard, of which the first element gam- may be a shortened form of gamal ‘old’ or gaman ‘joy’; the second el
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑˈmɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jamar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 134K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
11,527 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably an altered spelling of the French surname Jamard, from the Germanic personal name Gamhard, of which the first element gam- may be a shortened form of gamal ‘old’ or gaman ‘joy’; the second element hard means ‘hardy’, ‘strong’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jamar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,527 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Jamar | 358 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Jamar | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Jamar | 51 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Jamar | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 142K | 5 | Jamar | 42 |
| JM Jamaica | #470 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Jamar | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 29 | 1 in 26K | 29 | Jamar | 2 |
11,527 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jamar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name for someone who lived in a cave or pit, from an agent derivative of jama ‘pit’, ‘cave’, ‘hole’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Arabic; the handsome one.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Handsome.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Slovenian, caver; spelunker (one who explores caves)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, present indicative of jama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jamar Wilsonb. 1984USAmerican-Finnish basketball player
- Jay Lethalb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Jamar Smithb. 1987USAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
- Isaiah Thomasb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Jamar Abramsb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Jamar Dixonb. 1989CACanadian association football player
- Chronixxb. 1992JMnot in their usual nameJamaican singer and songwriter
- Jamar Lozab. 1994JMJamaican footballer
- Darius Thompsonb. 1995USnot in their usual nameItalian-American basketball player
- Lamar Jacksonb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jamar mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an altered spelling of the French surname Jamard, from the Germanic personal name Gamhard, of which the first element gam- may be a shortened form of gamal ‘old’ or gaman ‘joy’; the second el… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Jamar?
- In the etymology graph, Jamaar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jamar?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑˈmɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jamar a male or female name?
- Jamar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jamar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Jamar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamar.
- How common is the name Jamar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,527 people named Jamar in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Jamar compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Jamar is the 470th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jamarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jamar” — the 470th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.