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Jalil

#3,800 in 2025Boys' name

Important, exalted

Jalil has been given to 2,915 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,800 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Jalil, 2025

1 in 114,000

Jalil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jalil: meaning, origin, and history

Important, exalted

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jalil means

Jalil means “important, exalted”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,910 boys were recorded with the name Jalil between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,200 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,176 in 2020 to #3,800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,621 in 2015 to #3,800 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jalil between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #16,346 in 2001.

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 Jalil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,800
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jalil 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jalils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalil was born before 2004 — so the typical Jalil is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,910
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (1,006).

Is Jalil 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
+562
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,624
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,179
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.7%
Peak was 2000 (113)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,200
2000

Spellings of Jalil

Jalil is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 16.9% against Jalil's 0.55%.

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 Jalil is used

Across 1910–2025, Jalil was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 81,344 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

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. Jalil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jalil around the world

Where Jalil 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Jalil

People whose public names include Jalil, 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.

Jalil in other languages

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

JahlilJaleel

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

Jalil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,624
Best rank ever
#1,200
2000
Peak year
2000
113 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,910
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,346
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jalil

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

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Names with a curve like Jalil

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

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Sibling names for Jalil

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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