Jama — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jama

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,552 babies named Jama between 1918 and 2005, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jama currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Jama is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 101 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jama performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jama shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 324 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jama in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jama in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,552 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.