Jayma

Girls' name

Variant of Jamie

Jayma has been given to 386 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1957, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Jayma, 2019

1 in 694,000

Jayma over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jayma: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jamie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jayma means

Jayma is a variant of Jamie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jayma is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.mə/ for Jayma.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jayma → Jamie → James → James → Iacomus. The family’s meaning is “supplanter, heel-grabber”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Iákōbos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 386 girls were recorded with the name Jayma between 1949 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1957; its best national rank was #3,206 in 1957.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jayma?

Jayma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 336,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jayma 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jayma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaymas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jayma was born before 1981 — so the typical Jayma is around 44 today.

Median birth year: 1981; About 44 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 381; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Jayma 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1957 (14)
Years since peak: 68; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,206; 1957

Spellings of Jayma

Jayma is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 23.5% against Jayma's 0.03%.

Kayla23.5%346,570
Alma11.1%163,723
Layla8.8%129,136
Maya8.4%123,587
Jada4.6%67,400
Jaime3.4%50,067
Jayla3.2%46,432
Jana3.1%46,185

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 Jayma is used

Across 1910–2025, Jayma was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 757,747 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Indiana1 in —

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

Jayma 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: #3,206; 1957
Peak year: 1957; 14 that year
First recorded: 1949
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 386
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jayma

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

Jayli Jayah Jayd Jaylei Jayani Jaydee Jaydn Jayce Jaynee Jayci Jaysa Jaylie Jayln Jaydin Jaynie Jaylaa Jayana Jayliah Jaysie Jayni Jayleah Jaydah Jaylina Jaysha

Sibling names for Jayma

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

For a sister

Sherie Evonne Vickey Maribeth Vikki Terese Lavern Mariann

For a brother

Lonny Hayward Danial Von Michel Burt Fritz Kirby

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