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The first name 
Jamaya

Jamaya is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Jamaya meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jamaya is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Jamaya. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jamaya is #2,704 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jamaya.

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to discover about the name
 
Jamaya

Jamaya -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Jamaya are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Jamaya is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Jamaya live in Mississippi, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 17,268 would turn around if you called the name Jamaya across Mississippi.

Jamaya has 6 letters 
and begins with a J

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 six letters, the name Jamaya is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jamaya

If your name is Jamaya 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...

This is how you spell the name Jamaya

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jamaya, you can simply say:

Joker

Apple

Mouse

Apple

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Jamaya is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jamaya in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jamaya

Jamaya

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jamaya

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jamaya is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
A
M
A
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Jamaya

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
Y
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Jamaya sounds like this: