Jamyra
Feminine
Myra is in Turkey, and Santa Claus came from there. Nicholas was bishop of Myra in the fourth century, and the name of his city was borrowed by an English poet twelve hundred years later as a woman's name.
How old is the name Jamyra?
Jamyra first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Jamyra alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,000 people named Jamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamyra most popular?
Jamyra peaked in 2008, reaching #3158 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,949 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Myra to Jamyra
Our story of Jamyra
Myra was a city on the Lycian coast, with a rock-cut necropolis and a theater that are still standing, and its bishop in the early fourth century was Nicholas, whose reputation for secret gift-giving traveled through Byzantium to Russia, the Netherlands and eventually to an American poem of 1823 that fixed the modern figure. The city's own name is Lycian and its meaning is lost. Fulke Greville, writing love poetry in Elizabethan England, used Myra for his subject, and English took the name from him rather than from the map. American naming then did what it does: treated the two syllables as material, attached the Ja- prefix that was productive in the 1990s and 2000s, and produced Jamyra, which has a Turkish city, a Christmas saint and an Elizabethan courtier standing behind it in a line none of them would have recognized.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Jamyra is an American formation joining the Ja- prefix to Myra. Myra was coined in the seventeenth century by the poet Fulke Greville, apparently as a rearrangement of Mary or from the Lycian city of Myra; neither is documented as his intention. The compound carries no meaning; the peak is 2008.
How the name formed
- Myra
- Jamyra
Related forms: Jamira · Myra
Pronouncing Jamyra
juh-MY-ruh
Three syllables, stress on the second. Jamyra and Jamira are homophones; the y and i do the same work.
Nicknames for Jamyra
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
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 200853 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3158reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −52.6%9 in 2025, from 19
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.
Jamyra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jamira in English — spelling variant
- Myra in English — related form
Jamyras among us
people named Jamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jamyra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jamyra
- #10107
- Jamyra on the 2025 chart
- #919
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jamyra went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jamira and Jamirah 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 — 9,188 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jamyra 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 Meosha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamyra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Meosha climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Meosha's path sketches the road Jamyra is walking now.
Jamyra 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
Jamyra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamyra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Myra works as a complete name inside it.
- Three syllables with a strong central stress.
- It is genuinely uncommon in every decade.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
- Jamira is an equally common spelling.
- The 2008 peak dates it to one decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jamyras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Jamyra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jamyra?
- Jamyra is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jamira is the more common one — 17 births in 2025 against 9 for Jamyra.
- How popular is the name Jamyra in 2025?
- Jamyra ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamyra?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jamyra — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamyra with classmates?
- Jamyra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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