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Jamya

The girl's name Jamya has been in the national records since 1991, with 5,576 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,758th. About 5,500 Jamyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jamya

By the numbers

Total US births
5,576
Estimated living today
5,500
Median age today
18
Peak year
2005
Best rank
640th
Rank in 2025
4,758th
First recorded
1991

How old the living Jamyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,576 babies given the name since 1991, about 5,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jamya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jamya is most concentrated in Mississippi (4.7×), Alabama (4.2×), Georgia (3.9×), Louisiana (3.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular girls’ names the year Jamya peaked:

All the names of 2005

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.