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Jamil

#2,695 in 2025Boys' name

Beautiful

Jamil has been given to 7,735 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #2,695 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 214 recorded.

Babies named Jamil, 2025

1 in 69,100

Jamil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamil: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Arabic

What Jamil means

Jamil means “beautiful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jamil is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Jamil comes through Arabic جميل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,481 boys were recorded with the name Jamil between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 214 in 1991; its best national rank was #670 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,177 in 2020 to #2,695 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,506 in 2015 to #2,695 in 2025.

In the United States, 254 girls were recorded with the name Jamil between 1967 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1983; its best national rank was #3,862 in 1983.

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 Jamil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,695
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamil 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamil was born before 1995 — so the typical Jamil is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (1,735).

Is Jamil 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
−293
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−518
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,189
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.4%
Peak was 1991 (214)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1978

Spellings of Jamil

Jamil is not the most common spelling — James is, with 91.7% against Jamil's 0.13%.

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 Jamil is used

Across 2016–2025, Jamil was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 25,014 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

210 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 10,000
  2. 2New York1 in 14,286
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 20,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 25,000
  8. 8California1 in 33,333

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.

Jamil around the world

Where Jamil 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #1,527
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2005
    #427
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jamil

People whose public names include Jamil, 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.

Jamil in other languages

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

YamilJamelle

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

Jamil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,695
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 518
Best rank ever
#670
1978
Peak year
1991
214 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,481
Count in 2025
48

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,862
1983
Peak year
1983
20 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
254
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamil

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

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Names with a curve like Jamil

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

SheaDejuanJovanRigobertoBrittonDemarcoAntwonJosefEfrenRashawnMontrellCortez

Sibling names for Jamil

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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