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Yamila

#4,347 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Jamila

Yamila has been given to 1,216 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,347 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Yamila, 2025

1 in 100,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yamila: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jamila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yamila means

Yamila is a form of Jamila.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yamila → 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, 1,216 girls were recorded with the name Yamila between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,635 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,254 in 2020 to #4,347 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,421 in 2015 to #4,347 in 2025.

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 Yamila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,347
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yamila 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yamila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yamilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yamila was born before 2015 — so the typical Yamila is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,216
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (542).

Is Yamila 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
−775
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−93
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,074
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.8%
Peak was 2017 (133)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,635
2017

Spellings of Yamila

Yamila is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 50.8% against Yamila'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 Yamila is used

Across 2016–2025, Yamila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 25,384 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Yamila around the world

Where Yamila 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.

  • France
    1946–2019
    #5,301
    in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yamila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,347
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 93
Best rank ever
#1,635
2017
Peak year
2017
133 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,216
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Yamila

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

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Sibling names for Yamila

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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