Jamiah
Jamiah is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,627 among girls’ names and #12,802 among boys’, #8,528 among all names counting both); 2,815 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Jamiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamiah?
#5,627 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamiah fell from #2,600 in 2015 to #5,627 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.7 to 13.7 per million.
180 babies in 2003, the peak
Jamiah peaked in 2003, when 180 babies were given it (164 girls, #1,274 among girls’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,627 | 5 | #12,802 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,514 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,012 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,505 | 6 | #11,454 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,178 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,358 | 10 | #7,749 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,414 | 6 | #11,338 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,940 | 5 | #12,982 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,446 | 5 | #13,093 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,433 | 7 | #10,111 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,600 | 8 | #9,091 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,502 | 9 | #8,415 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,391 | 14 | #6,041 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,364 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,946 | 11 | #7,193 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,787 | 14 | #6,167 |
| 2009 | 149 | #1,523 | 16 | #5,666 |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,707 | 14 | #6,213 |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,519 | 12 | #6,815 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,583 | 12 | #6,636 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,455 | 9 | #7,915 |
| 2004 | 133 | #1,516 | 12 | #6,294 |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,274 | 16 | #4,900 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,941 | 9 | #7,277 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,340 | 15 | #4,984 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,603 | 12 | #5,710 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,649 | 11 | #5,799 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,136 | 10 | #6,016 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,786 | 14 | #4,542 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,793 | 6 | #8,358 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,797 | 10 | #5,663 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,829 | 9 | #6,045 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,392 | 9 | #5,946 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,430 | 12 | #4,673 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,199 | 15 | #3,889 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,593 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,432 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,092 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,887 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,146 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,660 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,160 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jamiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,815 Americans recorded as Jamiah, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamiah, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,815 Americans ever recorded as Jamiah. The median Jamiah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,108 people named Jamiah (1,825 women and girls, 283 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,552 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 771 |
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 Jamiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jamiah are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 224 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 195 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 121 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 117 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 108 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Tennessee | 79 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 77 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 77 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jamiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamiah is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1981 it was given 2.4 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 Jamiah 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 403,628 babies since 1880, Jamiah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 989 babies (2.7%), the fifth 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 Jamiah
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 Jamiah and names like it
- Compare Jamiah and JamieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamiah peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jamiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.