Jameca
Jameca was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jameca?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,396, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1982, the peak
Jameca peaked in 1982, when 17 girls were given it, #4,405 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,396 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,377 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,195 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,315 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,198 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,832 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,332 | 5.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,888 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,683 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,658 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 9 | #6,926 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,405 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,505 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,652 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,926 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,774 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,530 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,850 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,739 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,464 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,754 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jameca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jameca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameca, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Jameca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 184 people named Jameca (182 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jameca?
Jameca is a less common spelling of Jameka: SSA has recorded 202 Jameca and 1,631 Jameka since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,927 babies since 1880, Jameca is the eighth most given (2.9% of them).
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 Jameca
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 Jameca and names like it
- Compare Jameca and JamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJameca peaked in 1982.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameca since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jameca.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jameca alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.