Jemil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jemil has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2002, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Jemil, 2011
1 in 732,000
Jemil over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jemil?
Jemil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jemil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jemils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemil was born before 2002 — so the typical Jemil is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 33
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Jemil 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
- —
- 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 2002 (7)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Jemil
Jemil is not the most common spelling — Cecil is, with 23.8% against Jemil's <0.01%.
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.
Jemil around the world
Where Jemil 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.
- France1994–2023#6,434in 2023
- South Australia1994–1994#531in 1994
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jemil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jemil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jemil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.