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The first name 
Jamiyah

Jamiyah is a female first name.

Jamiyah is a well-known but special name!

Jamiyah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,428 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,427 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jamiyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jamiyah

Jamiyah -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Jamiyah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Jamiyah in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Jamiyah live in Mississippi – here, one in 10,079 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 56,515 will turn around if you call her first name Jamiyah.

Jamiyah has 7 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 seven letters, the name Jamiyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

Other names with 
J, a, m, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Jamiyah – J, a, m, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Jahmyia or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jamiyah

If your name is Jamiyah 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 Jamiyah

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

Joker

Apple

Mouse

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Jamiyah 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 Jamiyah in Braille?

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

Jamiyah

Jamiyah

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

J
A
M
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Jamiyah

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
I
Y
A
H

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. Jamiyah sounds like this: