Jama
Jama was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,653 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Jama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 46 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jama?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,264, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1961, the peak
Jama peaked in 1961, when 54 girls were given it, #1,537 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #15,264 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,772 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,228 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,147 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,908 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,182 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,395 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,325 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,008 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,014 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #12,344 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,756 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,155 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,717 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,061 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,239 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,186 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,050 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,861 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,933 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,581 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,669 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,494 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,134 | 28.7 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,272 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,075 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,292 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,972 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,954 | 28.8 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,331 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,080 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,468 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,179 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,894 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,626 | 29.7 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,807 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,927 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,642 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,606 | 25.9 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,740 | 21.9 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,537 | 26.8 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,958 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,961 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,830 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,307 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,745 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,603 | 21.0 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,612 | 20.6 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,764 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,229 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,623 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,962 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,557 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,151 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,845 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,518 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,999 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,256 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,625 | 5.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,687 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,651 | 4.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,284 | 7.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,510 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,737 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,638 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,907 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,049 | 5.9 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,178 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,653 Americans recorded as Jama, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jama, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,653 Americans ever recorded as Jama. The median Jama alive today is 55 years old; half are between 46 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,950 people named Jama (1,458 women and girls, 492 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 466 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 588 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 226 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 81 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 49 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jama born?
The states with the most babies named Jama are Indiana, Tennessee and Illinois, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 324 | not ranked | 7.4× |
| Tennessee | 158 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 19 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Jama is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jama is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1918 it was given 7.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jama with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 418,012 babies since 1880, Jama is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 946 babies recorded by SSA was a Jama (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jama
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jama and names like it
- Compare Jama and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJama peaked in 1961.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jama since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Jama.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jama alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.