Jamaya

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births

Peak · girls
2006 · 182 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,305
since 1983

Jamaya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jamaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,293, 2006girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,54617
2024#5,96220
2023#5,54922
2022#5,17225
2021#4,16734
2020#4,00535
2019#3,55243
2018#3,67741
2017#3,34647
2016#2,34380
2015#3,70541
2014#2,61567
2013#2,68165
2012#2,37378
2011#2,45474
2010#2,20288
2009#1,810119
2008#1,664134
2007#1,419167
2006#1,293182
2005#1,451146
2004#1,498134
2003#1,358149
2002#1,85396
2001#2,23672
2000#1,98584
1999#2,15370
1998#3,22238
1997#3,71630
1996#4,05926
1995#4,84620
1994#5,24918
1993#11,7806
1992#7,51211
1991#8,5889
1990#12,9585
1989#10,8476
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five girls were named Jamaya! It came in at #9,015, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Jamaya is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more girls named Jamaya in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jamaya
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 584 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #6,546)
  • 2,541 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #6,546)
  • 2,841 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2006 at #1,293 (182 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,446
  • Highest: 1 in 10,446 girls born in 2006 were named Jamaya (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 55.7% of all girls named Jamaya (1,283) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#9,015 (1983)#9,931
1990s233#2,153 (1999)#6,408
2000s1,283#1,293 (2006)#1,657
2010s624#2,202 (2010)#2,895
2020s153#4,005 (2020)#5,234

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jamaya in 1983

girls
#9,015
6 births · 1 in 278,435 girls

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #9,015Jamaya6
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 278,435 of them was named Jamaya, which outranked 25.3% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jamaya
  1. #8,047Zachariah7
  2. #8,047Zayda7
  3. #8,047Zuleika7
  4. #9,015Jamaya6
  5. #9,015Abrielle6
  6. #9,015Adama6
  7. #9,015Adebola6
  8. #10,275Aaren5
  9. #10,275Abbagail5
  10. #10,275Abbye5

Tied with 1,259 names at #9,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,772Ciji#7,469 → #697
  2. ↑ 6,751Kirby#7,469 → #718
  3. ↑ 2,656Dwan#3,530 → #874
  4. ↑ 1,888Mallory#2,220 → #332
  5. ↑ 987Marquita#1,099 → #112
Fallers
  1. ↓ 656Syreeta#717 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 572Jenilee#817 → #1,389
  3. ↓ 538Tenika#947 → #1,485
  4. ↓ 396Toccara#541 → #937
  5. ↓ 333Venus#950 → #1,283

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983 →