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Jamilah

#3,542 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Jamilah has been given to 2,672 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #3,542 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Jamilah, 2025

1 in 77,100

Jamilah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamilah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamilah means

Jamilah is a alternate transcription of Jamila.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jamilah → 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, 2,656 girls were recorded with the name Jamilah between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,506 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,160 in 2020 to #3,542 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,405 in 2015 to #3,542 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Jamilah between 1977 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1977; its best national rank was #5,425 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jamilah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,542
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamilah 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamilahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamilah was born before 1999 — so the typical Jamilah is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,656
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (544).

Is Jamilah 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
−3
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−382
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−137
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.9%
Peak was 1977 (73)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,506
1977

Spellings of Jamilah

Jamilah is not the most common spelling — Camila is, with 36.0% against Jamilah's 0.77%.

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 Jamilah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamilah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 108,550 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Jamilah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamilah around the world

Where Jamilah 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1960–2025
    #6,395
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1960–2005
    #775
    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 Jamilah

People whose public names include Jamilah, 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.

Jamilah in other languages

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

Jamillah

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

Jamilah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,542
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 382
Best rank ever
#1,506
1977
Peak year
1977
73 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,656
Count in 2025
43

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,425
1977
Peak year
1977
6 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamilah

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

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Names with a curve like Jamilah

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

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Sibling names for Jamilah

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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