Jamira
Feminine
Mira is a star, and it was named for being astonishing. When a seventeenth-century astronomer found a star in Cetus that brightened and faded on a cycle, he called it Mira, the wonderful one, because nothing in the sky was supposed to change.
How old is the name Jamira?
Jamira first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Jamira alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,200 people named Jamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamira most popular?
Jamira peaked in 2006, reaching #2728 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 3,818 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mirus to Jamira
The story of Jamira
Mira, the star Omicron Ceti, was recorded as variable by David Fabricius in 1596 and named Mira, the wonderful, by Johannes Hevelius half a century later; before that, European astronomy held that the heavens did not change, so a star that came and went was a serious problem as well as a curiosity. The word mira separately gives Spanish its ordinary verb for looking, and appears as a name in Sanskrit and across the Slavic languages from entirely different roots. American naming took the sound as an ending and prefixed it, giving Jamira, Damira and Tamira. Jamira's best year in United States records is 2006.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The -mira ending has more than one available source. Latin mira is the feminine of mirus, wonderful or astonishing, and is the name of the first known variable star. Spanish mira is the imperative of mirar, to look. Sanskrit and Slavic names Mira, meaning ocean and peace respectively, are separate again. The Ja- prefix is a free American naming element with no meaning, and the compound as a whole has none.
How the name formed
- mirus
- Mira
- Jamira
Related forms: Jamera · Mira · Mira
Pronouncing Jamira
juh-MEER-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say juh-MY-ruh with a long i, and the spelling does not settle between them.
Nicknames for Jamira
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
- 200665 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2728reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- −19.0%17 in 2025, from 21
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.
Jamira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jamera in English — spelling variant
- Mira in Spanish — related form
- Mira in Slavic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio.
Jamiras among us
people named Jamira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Jamira
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jamira
- #6546
- Jamira on the 2025 chart
- #919
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jamira went to 17 girls in 2025, but Jamirah and Jamyra are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 41, which makes it the 919th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,627 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Jamira itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sami test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sami climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sami's path sketches the road Jamira is walking now.
Jamira sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jamira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mira is available as a short form with four separate traditions behind it.
- The rhythm matches Elmira and Samira, so it never sounds unfamiliar.
- Six letters and no silent ones.
- Two pronunciations circulate for the middle syllable.
- Jamira, Jameera and Jamera all appear in the records.
- The name as a whole has no meaning; only its ending does.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jamiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Jamira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jamira?
- Jamira is the most-used spelling in US records — 17 of the 41 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jamirah and Jamyra.
- How popular is the name Jamira in 2025?
- Jamira ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamira?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Jamira — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamira with classmates?
- Jamira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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