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Jameela

#6,958 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Jameela has been given to 926 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #6,958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Jameela, 2025

1 in 207,000

Jameela over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jameela: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jameela means

Jameela is a alternate transcription of Jamila.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jameela → Jamila. The family’s meaning is “beautiful”, recorded in English with the source elements jamīla.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 926 girls were recorded with the name Jameela between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,585 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,223 in 2020 to #6,958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,412 in 2015 to #6,958 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 Jameela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jameela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jameela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jameelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jameela was born before 1998 — so the typical Jameela is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Jameela 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
−1,269
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,735
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+454
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 1993 (30)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,585
1986

Spellings of Jameela

Jameela is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 91.8% against Jameela's 0.14%.

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 Jameela is used

Across 1910–2025, Jameela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,138,506 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Tennessee1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jameela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jameela around the world

Where Jameela 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
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Jameela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,735
Best rank ever
#3,585
1986
Peak year
1993
30 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
926
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Jameela

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

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Sibling names for Jameela

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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