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Jameel

#5,107 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Jamil

Jameel has been given to 3,058 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #5,107 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 123 recorded.

Babies named Jameel, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jameel: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jamil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jameel means

Jameel is a alternate transcription of Jamil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jameel → Jamil. The family’s meaning is “beautiful”, recorded in the naming reference for Jamil.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,040 boys were recorded with the name Jameel between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 123 in 1978; its best national rank was #762 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,473 in 2020 to #5,107 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,319 in 2015 to #5,107 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Jameel between 1977 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #7,840 in 1977.

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 Jameel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,107
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jameel 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jameel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jameels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jameel was born before 1993 — so the typical Jameel is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,040
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (763).

Is Jameel 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
−154
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−634
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,788
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.4%
Peak was 1978 (123)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#762
1978

Spellings of Jameel

Jameel is not the most common spelling — James is, with 83.3% against Jameel's 0.05%.

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 Jameel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jameel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 77,699 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Jameel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jameel around the world

Where Jameel 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1990–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jameel

People whose public names include Jameel, 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.

Jameel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,107
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 634
Best rank ever
#762
1978
Peak year
1978
123 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,040
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,840
1977
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jameel

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

JamellJamereJameerJamallJamarrJamierJamonJaminJamaalJamielJameirJammieJamarioJameyJamaineJamariJamilJamireJaleelJamianJamienJamauriJamareJamir

Names with a curve like Jameel

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

SharifKhristopherRashidMontezJeronDontaTerronRamoneRyonKedrickDejuanLamarcus

Sibling names for Jameel

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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