Jamison

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jamison, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Harrison
• Gibson
• Kaiden
• Edison
• Elric

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Jamison is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Portugal

  Also written Jâmison, Jámison, Jãmison

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Jâmison

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Jamison is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• patronymic from James.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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.

• Herbert Jamisonb. 1875USAmerican sprinter (1875–1938)
• Jimi Jamisonb. 1951USAmerican singer (1951–2014)
• Antawn Jamisonb. 1976USAmerican basketball player (born 1976)

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).

42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Jamison mean, and where does it come from?

A Scottish surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Jamison?

In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Jamison, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamison. After it come United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada and Malawi; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Jamison?

In the United States, the national register counted 27,697 people named Jamison in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.