Meaning not yet researched.
Jameel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #762 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #762 in 1978; #5,108 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jameel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,108 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #762.
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Jameel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #762 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 123 (1978).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Jameel, making it the 5,108th most common boys’ name of the year, down 151 places from #4,957 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 20 boys named Jameel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #762, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 123. For comparison, it was #3,320 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jameel in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 3,058 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 769 babies named Jameel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 314 US boys were named Jameel; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jamel (11,592 babies since 1880), Jamaal (8,587 babies since 1880) and Jamil (7,735 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jameel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,108 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #4,957 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,505 |
| 2022 | — | — | 33 | #3,497 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,950 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,477 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,654 |
| 2017 | — | — | 49 | #2,579 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,906 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,320 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,064 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,151 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,655 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,872 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,575 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,722 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,698 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,580 |
| 2006 | — | — | 64 | #2,070 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,044 |
| 2004 | — | — | 59 | #2,037 |
| 2003 | — | — | 58 | #1,996 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,959 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,666 |
| 2000 | — | — | 68 | #1,692 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,786 |
| 1998 | — | — | 57 | #1,778 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,677 |
| 1996 | — | — | 73 | #1,429 |
| 1995 | — | — | 84 | #1,281 |
| 1994 | — | — | 86 | #1,259 |
| 1993 | — | — | 94 | #1,157 |
| 1992 | — | — | 101 | #1,094 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,080 | 90 | #1,166 |
| 1990 | — | — | 63 | #1,415 |
| 1989 | — | — | 52 | #1,555 |
| 1988 | — | — | 44 | #1,626 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,695 |
| 1986 | — | — | 44 | #1,519 |
| 1985 | — | — | 66 | #1,151 |
| 1984 | — | — | 64 | #1,138 |
| 1983 | — | — | 69 | #1,068 |
| 1982 | — | — | 81 | #1,010 |
| 1981 | — | — | 90 | #951 |
| 1980 | — | — | 111 | #838 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,804 | 117 | #806 |
| 1978 | — | — | 123 | #762 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,842 | 120 | #779 |
| 1976 | — | — | 74 | #972 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,162 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,425 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,166 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,239 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,493 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,793 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,397 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).