Juma

#7,403 in 2025Boys' name

Friday

Juma has been given to 160 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Juma, 2025

1 in 301,000

Juma over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juma: meaning, origin, and history

Friday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Juma means

Juma means “Friday”.

Origin, language, and formation

Juma is used in Swahili.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 160 boys were recorded with the name Juma between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,441 in 1974.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,372 in 2015 to #7,403 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Juma?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 301,000; 11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 155,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,403; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 208,901 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Juma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jumas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juma was born before 2009 — so the typical Juma is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 58.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 160; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Juma 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: +2,001; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,969; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.83×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 1980 (11)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,441; 1974

Spellings of Juma

Juma is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 44.9% against Juma's 0.02%.

Juan44.9%365,606
Jim18.8%153,122
Luca9.5%77,521
Jude6.6%53,982
Judah4.4%35,578
Jamal4.1%33,235
Luka3.6%28,959
Jamar2.0%15,964

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.

Juma around the world

Where Juma 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 & Wales
2016–2016
#4,810
in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Juma by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,441; 1974
Peak year: 1980; 11 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 160
Count in 2025: 11

Names similar to Juma

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

Numa Yuma Jumar Kazuma Kuma Jumal Jumaane Takuma Jumari Jumel Tacuma Zuma Jumoke Jumah Chukwuma Jumanne Haruma Jumarion Nakuma Jumanji Chuma Jumarcus Moctezuma Montezuma

Sibling names for Juma

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

Bambi Cory Cristy Catrina Fawn Andria Christal Kristal

For a brother

Torrey Whitney Andrea Delvin Derrell Garrick Chauncey Kelsey

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