Jamya
#4,808 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jamya has been given to 5,576 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,808 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 435 recorded.
Babies named Jamya, 2025
1 in 118,000
Jamya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jamya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 118,000
- 28 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 57,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,808
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 82,069 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jamya 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jamyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamya was born before 2007 — so the typical Jamya is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 63.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,576
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 63.2% of all recorded uses (3,526).
Is Jamya 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
- −654
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,898
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,094
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.4%
- Peak was 2005 (435)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jamya
Jamya is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 34.6% against Jamya's 0.27%.
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 Jamya is used
Across 2016–2025, Jamya was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 26,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 8,333
- 2Illinois1 in 14,286
- 3Alabama1 in 16,667
- 4South Carolina1 in 16,667
- 5Tennessee1 in 16,667
- 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 7Florida1 in 25,000
- 8Georgia1 in 33,333
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.
Jamya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jamya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jamya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jamya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jamya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.