In 2025, 17 US girls were named Jamaya, making it the 6,657th most common girls’ name of the year, down 629 places from #6,028 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 girls named Jamaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,294, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #3,729 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamaya in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 2,305 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,283 babies named Jamaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 364 US girls were named Jamaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jamaiya, Jamai and Jamayah are summarised on this page.