Jamia
Jamia was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,799 among girls’ names; 4,504 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,430 Americans named Jamia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamia?
#3,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamia fell from #2,444 in 2015 to #3,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.0 to 24.3 per million.
227 babies in 2003, the peak
Jamia peaked in 2003, when 227 babies were given it (221 girls, #1,035 among girls’ names). The 39 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,799 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,242 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,058 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,940 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,802 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,799 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,577 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,466 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,445 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,136 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,444 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,120 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,544 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,137 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,203 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,063 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,713 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 162 | #1,457 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,319 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 172 | #1,297 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 180 | #1,227 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 221 | #1,035 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 196 | #1,085 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,189 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 171 | #1,170 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,145 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 142 | #1,273 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,442 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 126 | #1,343 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,029 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,139 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 64 | #2,068 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,101 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,504 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,356 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,747 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,326 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,857 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,540 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,502 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,690 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,678 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,308 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,963 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,932 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,005 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,773 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,646 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,186 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,310 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,173 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,098 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamia has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jamia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamia, and how old are they?
4,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,504 Americans ever recorded as Jamia. The median Jamia alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,437 people named Jamia (3,379 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 899 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 840 |
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 Jamia born?
The states with the most babies named Jamia are Illinois, Georgia and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 294 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 278 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 274 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 265 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 153 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 149 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| North Carolina | 149 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 120 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 115 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 114 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jamia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1954 it was given 3.2 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 Jamia 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 416,865 babies since 1880, Jamia is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 966 babies (4.0%), the third 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 Jamia
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 Jamia and names like it
- Compare Jamia and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamia peaked in 2003.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamia since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jamia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.