Jama
Jama is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196154 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 1,653people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,552 girls have been named Jama in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 54 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 54 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 28%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 101 boys have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
By decade
In 1961, its biggest year
Jama was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Jama
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carynpeak 1965
- Jillpeak 1966
- Melindapeak 1970
- Reneepeak 1962
- Janeanpeak 1962
- Donnettapeak 1962
- Sharlapeak 1972
- Karynpeak 1964
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.