Jamyah
Jamyah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,446 among girls’ names; 1,133 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Jamyah 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 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamyah?
#12,446 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamyah fell from #4,774 in 2015 to #12,446 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 4.4 per million.
87 babies in 2010, the peak
Jamyah peaked in 2010, when 87 girls were given it, #2,228 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,446 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,698 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,414 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,318 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,304 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,547 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,359 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,815 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,982 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,121 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,774 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,047 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,141 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,495 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,962 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,228 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,623 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,815 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,580 | 37.4 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,409 | 41.0 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,581 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,687 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,395 | 37.8 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,682 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,895 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,762 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,513 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,077 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,309 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,407 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,309 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamyah 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 Jamyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamyah, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,133 Americans ever recorded as Jamyah. The median Jamyah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 757 people named Jamyah (742 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,037 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 788 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 325 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jamyah?
Jamyah is a less common spelling of Jamya: SSA has recorded 1,133 Jamyah and 5,576 Jamya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,066 babies since 1880, Jamyah is the eighth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 183 babies (3.8%), the seventh 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 Jamyah
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 Jamyah and names like it
- Compare Jamyah and JamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJamyah peaked in 2010.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jamyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jamyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.