Jameika
Jameika was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jameika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,774, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1995, the peak
Jameika peaked in 1995, when 23 girls were given it, #4,397 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,774 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,026 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,651 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,312 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,397 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,586 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,884 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,124 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,122 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,938 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12 | #6,690 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,873 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,477 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,889 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,792 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,051 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,562 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,675 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,034 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,468 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,538 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,949 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jameika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jameika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameika, and how old are they?
An estimated 258 Americans named Jameika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Jameika (237 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 260 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,927 babies since 1880, Jameika is the sixth most given (3.8% 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 Jameika
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 Jameika and names like it
- Compare Jameika and JamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJameika peaked in 1995.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameika since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Jameika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jameika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.