Jamaya
#6,656 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jamaya has been given to 2,305 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #6,656 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 182 recorded.
Babies named Jamaya, 2025
1 in 195,000
Jamaya over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jamaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,656
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jamaya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jamayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamaya was born before 2007 — so the typical Jamaya is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 55.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,305
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (1,283).
Is Jamaya rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −631
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,610
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,928
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.41×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.3%
- Peak was 2006 (182)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jamaya
Jamaya is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 21.8% against Jamaya's 0.38%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Jamaya is used
Across 1910–2025, Jamaya was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 86,899 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 20,000
- 2Georgia1 in 20,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 4Florida1 in 33,333
- 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 6Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 7Illinois1 in 50,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jamaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jamaya around the world
Where Jamaya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2021–2021#5,581in 2021
- South Australia1983–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jamaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jamaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jamaya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jamaya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jamaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.