Jama is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name Jama has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Jama. That means that a girl named Jama is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jama.
If your name is Jama your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Jama never ranked higher than position 1,434 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Jama. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1961 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Jama because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jama was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Jama still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 5 times in the entire U.S. So, a Jama from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Jama is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 527 Americans in total bear this name. And these 527 women are located in only four states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Jama and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Jama in relation to it’s female population is Indiana. And yet even there, only one in 11,065 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Jama.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Jama is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jama and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jama, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jama
Jama
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jama sounds like this:
