Baby name
FADING
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Jameson
/JAY · muh · sən/
Meaning
“Son of James”
An English surname meaning 'son of James'. James comes, through Latin and Greek, from the Hebrew name Ya'aqov (Jacob), the Old Testament patriarch who became the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Vibe
confident
How it ages.
A modern surname name for boys that reads confident and current, and should hold steady as more parents pick up on the surname-name trend.
The cultural moment.
Last ranked #137 in the United States in 2025, and #925 in the United Kingdom (England & Wales) in 2022; both are lapsed single-year figures rather than a multi-year series. Also used, less commonly, as a modern surname name for boys in Ireland.