Meaning not yet researched.
Jamil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #670 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #670 in 1978; #2,695 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,695 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #670.
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Jamil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #670 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 214 (1991).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Jamil, making it the 2,695th most common boys’ name of the year, down 293 places from #2,402 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 58 boys named Jamil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #670, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 214, in 1991. For comparison, it was #1,506 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamil in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1931 with 5 babies. In all, 7,735 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,811 babies named Jamil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 752 US boys were named Jamil; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamil ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,278 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yamil (1,601 babies since 1880), Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jamel (11,592 babies since 1880) and Jamaal (8,587 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamille are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jamille (716).
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 Jamil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,278 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,484 | #1,103 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,982 | #2,003 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,695 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,402 |
| 2023 | — | — | 75 | #2,018 |
| 2022 | — | — | 69 | #2,143 |
| 2021 | — | — | 74 | #2,015 |
| 2020 | — | — | 64 | #2,177 |
| 2019 | — | — | 86 | #1,798 |
| 2018 | — | — | 92 | #1,710 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,667 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,711 |
| 2015 | — | — | 110 | #1,506 |
| 2014 | — | — | 108 | #1,496 |
| 2013 | — | — | 89 | #1,679 |
| 2012 | — | — | 106 | #1,519 |
| 2011 | — | — | 134 | #1,282 |
| 2010 | — | — | 143 | #1,235 |
| 2009 | — | — | 156 | #1,161 |
| 2008 | — | — | 164 | #1,118 |
| 2007 | — | — | 169 | #1,083 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,319 | 141 | #1,190 |
| 2005 | — | — | 157 | #1,057 |
| 2004 | — | — | 164 | #1,009 |
| 2003 | — | — | 164 | #978 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,518 | 171 | #943 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,242 | 186 | #864 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,868 | 193 | #832 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,824 | 149 | #970 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,081 | 146 | #954 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,705 | 151 | #907 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,452 | 159 | #869 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,982 | 161 | #855 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,405 | 199 | #744 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,026 | 174 | #801 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,325 | 193 | #744 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,676 | 214 | #691 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,766 | 189 | #743 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,163 | 169 | #763 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,704 | 141 | #800 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,367 | 157 | #729 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,015 | 151 | #739 |
| 1985 | — | — | 142 | #747 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,578 | 117 | #809 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,863 | 143 | #724 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,740 | 150 | #712 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,669 | 139 | #737 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,472 | 158 | #691 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,892 | 153 | #691 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,594 | 157 | #670 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,642 | 147 | #703 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,242 | 140 | #704 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,693 | 93 | #864 |
| 1974 | — | — | 85 | #874 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,097 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,823 | 50 | #1,159 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,221 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,485 | 49 | #1,185 |
| 1969 | — | — | 21 | #1,831 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,534 | 28 | #1,490 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,185 | 17 | #1,941 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,921 |
| 1965 | — | — | 23 | #1,644 |
| 1964 | — | — | 18 | #1,934 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,601 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,753 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,790 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,487 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,260 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,714 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,747 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,916 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
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).