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Jamile

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Form of Jamila

Jamile has been given to 433 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% boys, 47% girls all-time.

Babies named Jamile, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jamile over time

In 2015, Jamile went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19742015

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jamile: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jamila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamile means

Jamile is a form of Jamila.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jamile is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jamile → 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, 229 boys were recorded with the name Jamile between 1974 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1984; its best national rank was #3,173 in 1984.

In the United States, 204 girls were recorded with the name Jamile between 1975 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,014 in 2000.

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 Jamile?

Jamile had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamile 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamile. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamiles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamile was born before 1988 — so the typical Jamile is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
229
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Jamile 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (14)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,173
1984

Spellings of Jamile

Jamile is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 31.8% against Jamile's 0.08%.

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 Jamile is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jamile was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Jamile has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jamile is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jamile was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,176,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Jamile has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamile around the world

Where Jamile 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.

  • South Australia
    2004–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jamile by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,173
1984
Peak year
1984
14 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
229
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,014
2000
Peak year
2000
31 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
204
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamile

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

JamoriJamoniJameisJamairJamiahJamaniJamareJamariiJamaiJamiriJamienJamianJamesenJamiasJamireJamesynJamiereJamirrJameirJamionJamealJameilJamarisJamiel

Sibling names for Jamile

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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