Jama

At the 2020 census, 4,321 Americans bore the surname Jama — 7,433rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,321
Rank: 7,433rd
How common: 1 in 69,200
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jama described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 94.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Jama

Matija Jama (1872–1947)Slovenian painter

People named Jama with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jama

Also a first name

Jama has been given to 1,653 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 1961. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.