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Jameya

Gender
Girl
Say it
juh-MAY-uh
Origin
Modern

Jameya is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Jameya come from?

Modern: modern invented name with the Ja- prefix

Is Jameya a girl's or a boy's name?

Jameya is a girls' name.

How popular is Jameya in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Jameya in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 13 in 20002019
Jameya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20197#12,442
20180–
20179#10,685
20167#12,871
20159#10,861
20145#16,507
20138#11,964
201211#9,706
20110–
20109#11,240
200912#9,375
200813#8,961
20079#11,626
200613#8,711
20058#11,828
20048#11,617
200312#8,500
200211#8,831
20017#12,049
200013#7,574
19990–
19987#11,132
19977#10,831
19966#11,801
19950–
19946#11,771

Names like Jameya

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jameya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jameya, updated 20 October 2026.