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Jahlil

#2,584 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jahlil has been given to 2,468 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #2,584 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 112 recorded.

Babies named Jahlil, 2025

1 in 65,000

Jahlil over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jahlil: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jahlil means

Jahlil is a given name.

The naming story behind Jahlil

Wikidata records Jahlil as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q72724825, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,468 boys were recorded with the name Jahlil between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,517 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,676 in 2020 to #2,584 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,517 in 2015 to #2,584 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.

How common is Jahlil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,584
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jahlil 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahlil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahlils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahlil was born before 2010 — so the typical Jahlil is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,468
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (891).

Is Jahlil 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
+182
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−908
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,067
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2016 (112)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,517
2015

Spellings of Jahlil

Jahlil is not the most common spelling — Jaylin is, with 18.4% against Jahlil's 4.4%.

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 Jahlil is used

Across 2016–2025, Jahlil was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 23,180 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 7,143
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 9,091
  3. 3Georgia1 in 11,111
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  5. 5Maryland1 in 12,500
  6. 6Virginia1 in 14,286
  7. 7Florida1 in 16,667
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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.

Jahlil around the world

Where Jahlil 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.

  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,479
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Jahlil

People whose public names include Jahlil, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jahlil in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jahlil. Linked forms have their own page here.

JalilJaleelJahleelJahloul

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jahlil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,584
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 908
Best rank ever
#1,517
2015
Peak year
2016
112 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,468
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Jahlil

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

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Names with a curve like Jahlil

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jahlil, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jahlil

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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