Jamera
Jamera was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,443 among girls’ names; 402 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamera?
#12,443 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamera fell from #11,289 in 2015 to #12,443 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
24 babies in 1999, the peak
Jamera peaked in 1999, when 24 girls were given it, #4,632 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,443 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,194 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,687 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,779 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,531 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,546 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,319 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,289 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,203 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,379 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,762 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,893 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,739 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,913 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,362 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,932 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,537 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,102 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,602 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,010 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,151 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,663 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,305 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,632 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,223 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,017 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,370 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,796 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,916 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,287 | 5.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,636 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,116 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,639 | 3.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,768 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,129 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamera, and how old are they?
An estimated 397 Americans named Jamera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 349 people named Jamera (339 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,831 babies since 1880, Jamera is the seventh most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 80 babies (8.8%), the sixth 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 Jamera
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 Jamera and names like it
- Compare Jamera and JamariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJamera peaked in 1999.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamera since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jamera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.