Jameelah
#9,728 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jameelah has been given to 1,312 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #9,728 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 82 recorded.
Babies named Jameelah, 2025
1 in 332,000
Jameelah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jameelah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,728
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jameelah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jameelah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jameelahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jameelah was born before 1991 — so the typical Jameelah is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 25.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,312
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (330).
Is Jameelah 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
- −1,073
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,000
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,559
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.2%
- Peak was 1978 (82)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jameelah
Jameelah is not the most common spelling — Jamilah is, with 20.5% against Jameelah's 10.1%.
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 Jameelah is used
Across 1910–2025, Jameelah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 268,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
- 8Virginia1 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. Jameelah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jameelah around the world
Where Jameelah 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,927in 2025
- South Australia1998–2004#490in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jameelah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jameelah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jameelah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.