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Jamesha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jamesha has been given to 2,274 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Jamesha, 2017

1 in 397,000

Jamesha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamesha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamesha means

Jamesha is a given name.

The naming story behind Jamesha

Wikidata records Jamesha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q119574550, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,274 girls were recorded with the name Jamesha between 1974 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,169 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jamesha?

Jamesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 397,000
9 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 192,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
275,497 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamesha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 275,497 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jameshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamesha was born before 1995 — so the typical Jamesha is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,274
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.6% of all recorded uses (1,242).

Is Jamesha 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (151)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,169
1994

Spellings of Jamesha

Jamesha is not the most common spelling — James is, with 22.6% against Jamesha's 2.1%.

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 Jamesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamesha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 84,485 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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. Jamesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamesha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,169
1994
Peak year
1994
151 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
2,274
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamesha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jamesha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jamesha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KelciJourdanJazzminSieraBrieannaAllysaBreeannaChynnaJazzmineKirstynKelsyKelcie

Sibling names for Jamesha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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