Jamesia
Feminine
Jamesia adds a Latin-looking ending to a man's name whole, without cutting anything, which is the older of the two American ways of building a daughter's name from a father's. The word its front approaches is one English cannot account for at all.
How old is the name Jamesia?
Jamesia first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Jamesia alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 700 people named Jamesia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamesia most popular?
Jamesia peaked in 1995, reaching #3022 nationally. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ya'aqov to Jamesia
Our story of Jamesia
Nobody knows where jamboree comes from. It turns up in nineteenth-century American English meaning a noisy party or a spree, and every proposed derivation has failed: a blend of jabber and shivaree, a Hindi or Swahili word, a corruption of something French. Dictionaries say origin unknown. What is documented is the second half of its career. When Baden-Powell organized the first international Scout gathering in nineteen twenty, he called it a Jamboree, and when asked why he reportedly said that the word meant what he wanted it to mean and he had chosen it deliberately. The Scout movement has used it ever since for its world gatherings, which has given a word with no traceable past a completely fixed modern meaning — the reverse of the usual order.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is the name James, whose descent from Hebrew through Latin is documented. The ending imitates a Latin feminine and carries nothing here. What a family meant by the combination is not recorded.
How the name formed
- Ya'aqov
- Iacobus
- James
- Jamesia
Pronouncing Jamesia
juh-MEE-zee-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. In fast speech the last two collapse into one, and both are heard in the same families.
Nicknames for Jamesia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 199538 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3022reached in 1995
- Change vs 2017
- −28.6%5 in 2021, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jamesias among us
people named Jamesia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jamesia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The father's name is fully visible in it, which is the point of the build.
- Several short forms come out of it at different cuts.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects it.
- Jamesha, Jamisia and Jameisha are all recorded and will be written for it.
- The syllable count is unstable, so the name gets said two ways.
- Only the front carries a meaning, and the ending has none at all.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jamesias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jamesia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jamesia in 2025?
- Jamesia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jamesia with classmates?
- Jamesia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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