Names of Jamaica JM

Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017 records Amelia as the commonest given name in Jamaica; the names that most distinguish Jamaica from the rest of the world are Brown, Williams and Smith.

Written in English.

Population
2.8M
Official registers
5
Name forms recorded
17K
BBuilt from 5 official registers (2017), 16,585 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Jamaica are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Jamaica included.

How names work in Jamaica

Names in Jamaica follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Jamaica

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 2
Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017, 2017 — 10 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Amelia207—
2Arianna181—
3Ariana95—
4Kaira——
5Gabrielle——
6Gabriella——
7Brianna——
8Mia——
9Adrianna——
10Savannah——

Where the two lists disagree

10 of Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017's top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017 2017Across all recordsamelia: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. amelianot rankedarianna: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ariannanot rankedariana: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. ariananot rankedkaira: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. kairanot rankedgabrielle: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. gabriellenot rankedgabriella: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. gabriellanot rankedbrianna: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. briannanot rankedmia: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. mianot rankedadrianna: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. adriannanot rankedsavannah: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. savannahnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017, 2017 on the left; every record we hold for Jamaica on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Jamaica

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Jamaica holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MarciaLeroyMoniqueYvetteArleneDwayneDoreenLorettaLloydMariaNadineJeromeLucilleEthelSimoneLatoyaOshaneGwendolynPauletteErrolMarshaClaudetteMaxineAlvinAnnKeishaJermaineUnrulyAnnmarieAntoinetteKemarDelroyReginaldDamionClaudeTyroneCamilleMaryAnnHyacinthRosemarieDwightGertrudeSalvatoreCharmaineFrancineCarltonDeloresAltheaHoraceTrevorPatriceRudolphPierreRohanMarvaAngellaRomarioCecilSuzetteLorna
Sized by how much of the difference between Jamaica's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Brownsurname●
Williamssurname●
Smithsurname●
Johnsonsurname●
Campbellsurname●
The best-attested names in Jamaica, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Jamaica?
Amelia, according to Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017 (2017), with 207 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Jamaica?
Because they count different people. Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017 (2017) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Amelia. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Marcia. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Jamaica”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/JM (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Jamaica Registrar General's Department — top baby names 2017.