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Jamila

#1,686 in 2025Girls' name

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Jamila has been given to 8,322 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,686 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 418 recorded.

Babies named Jamila, 2025

1 in 27,200

Jamila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamila: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Arabic

What Jamila means

Jamila means “beautiful”, associated with jamīla.

Origin, language, and formation

Jamila is used in English and Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Jamila comes through Arabic جَمِيلَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,322 girls were recorded with the name Jamila between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 418 in 1977; its best national rank was #468 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,757 in 2020 to #1,686 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,914 in 2015 to #1,686 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 Jamila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,200
122 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,686
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,836 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamila 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamila was born before 1991 — so the typical Jamila is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,322
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1980s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (1,887).

Is Jamila 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
−130
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+71
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 1977 (418)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#468
1977

Spellings of Jamila

Jamila is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 37.8% against Jamila's 0.53%.

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 Jamila is used

Across 2016–2025, Jamila was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 12,333 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,692
  3. 3Illinois1 in 9,091
  4. 4Ohio1 in 9,091
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 11,111
  6. 6Maryland1 in 12,500
  7. 7Michigan1 in 12,500
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 12,500

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.

Jamila around the world

Where Jamila 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
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2003
    #667
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    2004–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1939–2025
    #1,622
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #562
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Jamila

People whose public names include Jamila, 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.

Jamila in other languages

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

JameelaJamillaJamillah

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

Jamila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,686
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 71
Best rank ever
#468
1977
Peak year
1977
418 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,322
Count in 2025
122

Names similar to Jamila

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

JamiyaJamyaJamiahJamayaJamiaJamiyahDalilaJameyJamesJamilahJamiraJammieJamyahDelilaJamyraKeilaKamilaJamelaShailaJamaraJamisonJamariJameilaTwila

Names with a curve like Jamila

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

NikoleSalinaCoriNicolleGriseldaMalikaSommerMariselaKiaAlysiaDanyelleAdria

Sibling names for Jamila

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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