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Jamille

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Good deed, favor, benefit, through Jamil

Jamille has been given to 716 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1991, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.

Babies named Jamille, 2018

1 in 703,000

Jamille over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jamille over time

In 2018, Jamille went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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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.

Jamille: meaning, origin, and history

Good deed, favor, benefit, through Jamil

coinages

What Jamille means

Jamille belongs to the name family reached through Jamille → Jamil → جميل. Its meaning is “good deed, favor, benefit”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jamille is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Jamille is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamil and جميل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 456 girls were recorded with the name Jamille between 1963 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,052 in 1984.

In the United States, 260 boys were recorded with the name Jamille between 1972 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1979; its best national rank was #3,443 in 1979.

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 Jamille?

Jamille had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamille 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamille was born before 1985 — so the typical Jamille is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
456
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Jamille 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 1991 (21)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,052
1984

Spellings of Jamille

Jamille is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 58.1% against Jamille's 0.10%.

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 Jamille is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamille was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Jamille has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamille around the world

Where Jamille 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
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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

Jamille 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
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Best rank ever
#4,052
1984
Peak year
1991
21 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
456
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,443
1979
Peak year
1979
12 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
260
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamille

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

JamelleJamyiahJamiliaJamirahJamylahJamisynJamayahJamiletJameelaJameliaJameriaJameraJamillaJamesonJamaniJamariaJamylaJamellaAnaelleRozelleJezelleGinelleRayelleJoyelle

Sibling names for Jamille

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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