Jamara
Jamara was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,903 among girls’ names; 978 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamara?
#13,903 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamara fell from #12,294 in 2015 to #13,903 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
39 babies in 1994, the peak
Jamara peaked in 1994, when 39 babies were given it (34 girls, #3,318 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,903 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,696 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,671 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,619 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,696 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,834 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,418 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,280 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,213 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,294 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,471 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,562 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,831 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,240 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,669 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,405 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,625 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,260 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,795 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,160 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,931 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,137 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,680 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,581 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,579 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,656 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,595 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,656 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,453 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,918 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,318 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,812 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,523 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,550 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,830 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,711 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,018 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,927 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,273 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,470 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,319 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,756 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,674 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,684 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,816 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,918 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,948 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,529 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,849 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,962 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,497 | 6.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,620 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,480 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,965 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 978 Americans recorded as Jamara, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamara, and how old are they?
An estimated 956 Americans named Jamara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 789 people named Jamara (684 women and girls, 105 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 926 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,936 babies since 1880, Jamara is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 80 babies (7.5%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Jamara
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 Jamara and names like it
- Compare Jamara and JamariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJamara peaked in 1994.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamara since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Jamara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.