Meaning not yet researched.
Jameelah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,414 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,414 in 1978; #9,731 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jameelah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,731 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,414.
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Jameelah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,414 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 82 (1978).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Jameelah, making it the 9,731st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,071 places from #8,660 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Jameelah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,414, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #8,173 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jameelah in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,312 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 330 babies named Jameelah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 170 US girls were named Jameelah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamilah (2,672 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 Jameelah 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 | 10 | #9,731 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,660 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,691 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,424 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,813 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,652 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,166 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,173 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,562 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,934 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,265 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,686 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,190 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,663 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,934 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,636 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,729 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,443 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,753 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,163 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,567 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,153 | — | — |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,427 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,374 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,168 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,901 | — | — |
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).