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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Jama

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a derivative of Arabic jāmi‛ ‘author’, ‘writer’ (literally ‘gatherer’). Nur-ud-Dīn Abdur Rahman Jāmi‛ (1414–92) was a Persian Sufi poet.

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