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Yamileth

#1,026 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful

Yamileth has been given to 6,643 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,026 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 353 recorded.

Babies named Yamileth, 2025

1 in 13,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yamileth: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Spanish

What Yamileth means

Yamileth means “beautiful”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Spanish, derived from Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “Jamila”, literally “beautiful”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yamileth (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yamileth is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Yamileth comes through Arabic جَمِيلَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,643 girls were recorded with the name Yamileth between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 353 in 2014; its best national rank was #798 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #983 in 2020 to #1,026 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #855 in 2015 to #1,026 in 2025.

How common is Yamileth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,500
245 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,560
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,026
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,380 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yamileth 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,380 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yamileth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yamileths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yamileth was born before 2014 — so the typical Yamileth is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,643
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (2,984).

Is Yamileth 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
−119
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−43
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.4%
Peak was 2014 (353)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#798
2014

Spellings of Yamileth

Yamileth is the most-used spelling, taking 39.6% of the 16,781 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Yamileth is used

Across 2016–2025, Yamileth was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 4,889 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,564
  2. 2California1 in 2,703
  3. 3Arizona1 in 3,125
  4. 4Washington1 in 3,571
  5. 5Colorado1 in 3,704
  6. 6Illinois1 in 4,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 4,545
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 5,000

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.

Geographically, Yamileth is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 88% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Yamileth around the world

Where Yamileth 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.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yamileth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,026
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 43
Best rank ever
#798
2014
Peak year
2014
353 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,643
Count in 2025
245

Names similar to Yamileth

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

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Names with a curve like Yamileth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yamileth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AyleenRylanZaniyahGiavannaDalilahMalayaRayneAveriLiliannaEllisonElleryKaleah

Sibling names for Yamileth

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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