girls:
1.5k births since 1972
#4219 (26th percentile)
boys:
37 births since 1974
#4549 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1972
#6182 (20th percentile)
The name Jamaica is the #6,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,564 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 20.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,219 (26.2% percentile) for all time with 1,527 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,549 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1974.
Jamaica first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1974 for boys).
The name Jamaica has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jamaica reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #712) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 37 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jamaica ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jamaica reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #671) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamaica".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jamaica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Jamaica is pronounced as juh-MAY-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-MAI-kuh, at 29.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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