Jama

Where Jama comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jama.

  • Vowel-ended
Jama through the years
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Peak, #1,533
    54 babies named Jama, the most in any year.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,898.
  4. 2006
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jama hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.