Jayma — girls' name
386 babies named Jayma in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1957. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
19% of everyone ever named Jayma was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Jayma in 1957 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jayma
The Social Security Administration has registered 386 babies named Jayma between 1949 and 2019, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jayma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jayma performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jayma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jayma in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jayma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 386 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jayma at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jayma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1949
- Peak year (1957)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
386 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1957 with 14 births in a single year.
Jayma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 72 births that decade — 19% of Jayma's all-time total
Jayma decade highlights
- Peak decade 72 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Jayma's strongest decade
72 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 19% of all-time use.
Jayma by state
Where Jayma concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Indiana | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 386 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Indiana 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Indiana accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.