Jamiyah
Jamiyah was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,488 among girls’ names; 3,721 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,690 Americans named Jamiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamiyah?
#3,488 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamiyah fell from #1,467 in 2015 to #3,488 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 88.0 to 27.4 per million.
249 babies in 2007, the peak
Jamiyah peaked in 2007, when 249 girls were given it, #1,055 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,488 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,648 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,630 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,876 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,903 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,758 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,735 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 157 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 199 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 227 | #1,085 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 227 | #1,095 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,068 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,118 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 249 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,345 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,408 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,482 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,632 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,429 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,933 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,356 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,740 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,417 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,990 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,918 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamiyah, and how old are they?
3,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,721 Americans ever recorded as Jamiyah. The median Jamiyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,423 people named Jamiyah (2,391 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Jamiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,629 | 2.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,560 | 0.7× |
Where Jamiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamiyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1994 it was given 5.1 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 Jamiyah 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 23,833 babies since 1880, Jamiyah is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 189 babies (23%), the 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 Jamiyah
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 Jamiyah and names like it
- Compare Jamiyah and JamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJamiyah peaked in 2007.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jamiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.