girls:
1.6k births since 1918
#4198 (27th percentile)
boys:
101 births since 1976
#4485 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1918
#6096 (21st percentile)
The name Jama is the #6,096 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,653 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 21.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,198 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,552 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,485 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 101 births since 1976.
Jama first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Jama is available in 82 out of the 105 years between 1918 and 2022 (69 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jama has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Jama were girls. Interestingly, until around 2007, the name was more popular for girls (97.7% girls from 1918 to 2006), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2007 to 2022).
For girls, Jama reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #739) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Jama reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #910) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jama".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jama. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.5% confident that Jama is pronounced as JAH-muh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-muh, at 27.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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