Given name & surname
Jama
“she who supplants”
Jama is a variant of Jamie. In Hebrew use, Jamie carries the interpretation “she who supplants.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jama is a variant of Jamie. In Hebrew use, Jamie carries the interpretation “she who supplants.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jama through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,653
- 101 boys · 1,552 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 54 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,950 as a first name in 2020; 4,321 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jama
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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