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Djibril

#6,548 in 2025Boys' name

Reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible, through جِبْرِيل

Djibril has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #6,548 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Djibril, 2025

1 in 255,000

Djibril over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Djibril: meaning, origin, and history

Reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible, through جِبْرِيل

Arabic

What Djibril means

Djibril belongs to the name family reached through Djibril → جِبْرِيل. Its meaning is “reliable, trustworthy, loyal, responsible”.

Origin, language, and formation

Djibril is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Djibril comes through Arabic جِبْرِيل.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include جِبْرِيل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 306 boys were recorded with the name Djibril between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2013; its best national rank was #5,450 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,730 in 2020 to #6,548 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,025 in 2015 to #6,548 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Djibril?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,548
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Djibril sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Djibril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Djibrils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Djibril was born before 2012 — so the typical Djibril is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
306
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Djibril rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+821
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+182
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,477
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.3%
Peak was 2013 (16)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,450
2013

Spellings of Djibril

Djibril is not the most common spelling — Jabril is, with 49.7% against Djibril's 9.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Djibril is used

Across 1910–2025, Djibril was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 380,681 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Djibril has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Djibril around the world

Where Djibril ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1964–2025
    #185
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Djibril by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,548
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 182
Best rank ever
#5,450
2013
Peak year
2013
16 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
306
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Djibril

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DjimonSherrilKirilJibrilDerrilJabrilJubrilTerrilMerrilDarrilGibrilEmerilAprilMerilDarilAverilGavrilJerrilMurilKyrilCyrilGabrilVerilEril

Sibling names for Djibril

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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