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Jamillah

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Jamillah has been given to 1,048 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1975, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Jamillah, 2023

1 in 663,000

Jamillah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamillah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jamila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamillah means

Jamillah is a alternate transcription of Jamila.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jamillah is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒa.ˈmiː.la/ for Jamillah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jamillah → 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, 1,048 girls were recorded with the name Jamillah between 1969 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,632 in 1975.

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 Jamillah?

Jamillah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamillah 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamillah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamillahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamillah was born before 1982 — so the typical Jamillah is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,048
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (421).

Is Jamillah 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (60)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,632
1975

Spellings of Jamillah

Jamillah is not the most common spelling — Camilla is, with 46.9% against Jamillah's 1.6%.

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 Jamillah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamillah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 256,367 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Jamillah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamillah around the world

Where Jamillah 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
    2017–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2002–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Jamillah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,632
1975
Peak year
1975
60 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,048
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamillah

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

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Sibling names for Jamillah

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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