Jamirah
Jamirah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,274 among girls’ names; 677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamirah?
#7,274 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamirah fell from #6,327 in 2015 to #7,274 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 9.3 per million.
68 babies in 2003, the peak
Jamirah peaked in 2003, when 68 girls were given it, #2,419 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,274 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,656 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,894 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,997 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,221 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,190 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,846 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,672 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,582 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,056 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,327 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,561 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,108 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,330 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,401 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,788 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,641 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,579 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,160 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,301 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,874 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,858 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,419 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,507 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,671 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,224 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,072 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,596 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,981 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,097 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,979 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,402 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,026 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 671 Americans named Jamirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 463 people named Jamirah (451 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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 4,963 babies since 1880, Jamirah is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 71 babies (21%), 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 Jamirah
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 Jamirah and names like it
- Compare Jamirah and JamiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamirah peaked in 2003.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamirah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jamirah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamirah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.