Jamaya
Jamaya was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,656 among girls’ names; 2,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Jamaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaya?
#6,656 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamaya fell from #3,728 in 2015 to #6,656 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 10.6 per million.
182 babies in 2006, the peak
Jamaya peaked in 2006, when 182 girls were given it, #1,294 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,656 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,025 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,634 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,226 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,190 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,046 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,579 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,703 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,364 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,353 | 45.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,728 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,626 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,693 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,382 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,463 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,210 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,815 | 64.8 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,670 | 70.9 |
| 2007 | 167 | #1,420 | 86.9 |
| 2006 | 182 | #1,294 | 95.7 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,454 | 79.0 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,502 | 73.0 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,358 | 81.5 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,856 | 53.4 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,244 | 40.0 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,989 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,155 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,247 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,746 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,099 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,912 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,325 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,394 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,712 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,874 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,831 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,372 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,473 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaya, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,305 Americans ever recorded as Jamaya. The median Jamaya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,846 people named Jamaya (1,807 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 105 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 534 |
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 Jamaya born?
The states with the most babies named Jamaya are Georgia, Alabama and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 234 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 143 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Florida | 138 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 127 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Mississippi | 111 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 88 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 86 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 71 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Jamaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamaya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1983 it was given 4.7 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 Jamaya 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 23,385 babies since 1880, Jamaya is the fifth most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 156 babies (11%), again the fifth most given.
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 Jamaya
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 Jamaya and names like it
- Compare Jamaya and JamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamaya peaked in 2006.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jamaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.