Jamya

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 81 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
81
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jamya by the numbers

Jamya was given to 81 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 435 babies in 2005, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jamya

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jamya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jayavictory19 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Jamato gather; to assemble9 in the US (2017)
  • Jamia73 in the US (2017)
  • Jamiya71 in the US (2017)
  • Jamaya47 in the US (2017)
  • Jamyla39 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jamya

Names that are said the same way as Jamya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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