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Jamiya

#5,803 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jamiya has been given to 3,359 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #5,803 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Jamiya, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamiya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamiya means

Jamiya is a given name.

The naming story behind Jamiya

Wikidata records Jamiya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q136664356, 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, 3,359 girls were recorded with the name Jamiya between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 2008; its best national rank was #991 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,161 in 2020 to #5,803 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,748 in 2015 to #5,803 in 2025.

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 Jamiya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,803
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamiya 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 2025 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamiya was born before 2008 — so the typical Jamiya is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,359
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (1,668).

Is Jamiya 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
−1,196
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,642
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,055
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.17×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.8%
Peak was 2008 (268)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#991
2008

Spellings of Jamiya

Jamiya is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 27.9% against Jamiya's 0.35%.

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 Jamiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Jamiya was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 33,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 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.

Jamiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,642
Best rank ever
#991
2008
Peak year
2008
268 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,359
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Jamiya

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

JamiahJamayaJamaiyaJameyJamiyahJamilaJamilahJamiraJamiaJamyahJamyraKamiyaZakiyaJamyaJamelaJamaraJamisonZaniyaLaniyaAlaiyaJamariMakiyaSafiyaJammie

Names with a curve like Jamiya

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

MakaylahShaniyahKloeAbygailAniahAbbygailAriyanaBrookelynnJaelaPaytenRileighBrookelyn

Sibling names for Jamiya

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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