Fun Facts About the Name Jamarcus
- More than 5 thousand babies named Jamarcus: U.S. records list 5,637 babies given the name Jamarcus from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Jamarcus Mean?
Jamarcus is a modern American given name, usually explained as the prefix Ja- attached to the name Marcus. The Ja- element, which also appears in American names such as Jamal and Jamar, has no fixed meaning of its own; it works as an opening syllable rather than a word with a translation. For that reason the combined name has no settled literal meaning, and its sense is normally taken from the second element alone.
That second element, Marcus, is a Latin personal name (the Roman praenomen Marcus). It is traditionally linked to Mars, the Roman god of war, which yields a customary sense such as "warlike" or "of Mars." The origin of the god's name is itself uncertain and may be Etruscan, so this derivation is a long-standing association rather than a securely documented etymology.
Jamarcus Name History & Origins
Jamarcus belongs to a family of American names made by placing an extra syllable in front of an older name. Over the 20th century, and especially in the United States, speakers formed many such names by adding elements like De-, La-, or Ja- to names such as Marcus, producing forms like DeMarcus, LaMarcus, and JaMarcus. These creations follow patterns of sound and rhythm rather than rules of meaning, and the spelling varies: Jamarcus, JaMarcus, and Ja'Marcus all occur.
The base name, Marcus, is ancient. It was a common Roman personal name, borne by the statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero and by the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro. In the Latin New Testament the same name appears as Marcus, the evangelist called Mark in English, and from that figure the name spread widely through Christian Europe. Marcus stayed in use in Italy and other European countries and passed into English as both a given name and a surname. Jamarcus is best understood as a later American formation built on that older name, not as a development of it within Latin or any other older language.
How Popular is the Name Jamarcus?
Jamarcus recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2007. Its best rank was #737 in 1994.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,987 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #3,174 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 2023 | #2,625 | 50 | 0.0029% |
| 2022 | #2,597 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2021 | #2,937 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2020 | #2,356 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 2019 | #2,177 | 65 | 0.0036% |
| 2018 | #2,401 | 55 | 0.0030% |
| 2017 | #1,873 | 78 | 0.0042% |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 95 | 0.0050% |
| 2015 | #1,773 | 86 | 0.0045% |
| 2014 | #1,495 | 108 | 0.0056% |
| 2013 | #1,438 | 115 | 0.0061% |
| 2012 | #1,230 | 144 | 0.0076% |
| 2011 | #1,281 | 134 | 0.0071% |
| 2010 | #1,042 | 186 | 0.0097% |
| 2009 | #950 | 212 | 0.0107% |
| 2008 | #796 | 276 | 0.0135% |
| 2007 | #744 | 301 | 0.0145% |
| 2006 | #920 | 206 | 0.0100% |
| 2005 | #1,076 | 153 | 0.0077% |
| 2004 | #1,004 | 165 | 0.0083% |
| 2003 | #1,066 | 146 | 0.0074% |
| 2002 | #1,037 | 148 | 0.0076% |
| 2001 | #956 | 161 | 0.0083% |
| 2000 | #982 | 152 | 0.0077% |
| 1999 | #969 | 149 | 0.0078% |
| 1998 | #854 | 171 | 0.0089% |
| 1997 | #833 | 174 | 0.0092% |
| 1996 | #815 | 177 | 0.0093% |
| 1995 | #798 | 182 | 0.0096% |
| 1994 | #737 | 203 | 0.0105% |
| 1993 | #759 | 190 | 0.0097% |
| 1992 | #792 | 175 | 0.0088% |
| 1991 | #807 | 164 | 0.0081% |
| 1990 | #815 | 157 | 0.0076% |
| 1989 | #948 | 116 | 0.0058% |
| 1988 | #911 | 110 | 0.0057% |
| 1987 | #1,041 | 84 | 0.0045% |
| 1986 | #1,207 | 63 | 0.0034% |
| 1985 | #1,197 | 62 | 0.0034% |
| 1984 | #1,285 | 52 | 0.0029% |
| 1983 | #1,499 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 1982 | #2,081 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1981 | #2,444 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1980 | #2,883 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1979 | #2,947 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1978 | #2,978 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1977 | #3,975 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1976 | #5,973 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1975 | #3,528 | 10 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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