Meaning not yet researched.
Jamila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 1977; #1,686 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,686 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #468.
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Jamila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 girls in 2025. Peak: #468 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 418 (1977).
In 2025, 122 US girls were named Jamila, making it the 1,686th most common girls’ name of the year, down 130 places from #1,556 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 137 girls named Jamila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #468, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 418. For comparison, it was #1,914 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamila in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 8,322 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,887 babies named Jamila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,298 US girls were named Jamila; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,174 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamila ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,010 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamilah (2,672 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamilla, Jamillah and Jamela 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jamilla (1,181), Jamillah (1,048), Jamela (945), Jameela (926), Jamyla (744), Jamella (463), Jamylah (283), Jamelah (152), Jameila (138), Jamala (103), Jamiyla (97), Jamayla (46), and more.
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 Jamila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #1,010 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,059 | #1,540 |
| New York | 13 | #1,114 | #1,322 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,194 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,494 | — |
| California | 10 | #2,011 | #2,587 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,289 | #2,281 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,293 | #1,302 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 2023 | 142 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2015 | 106 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2013 | 94 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1998 | 126 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1995 | 192 | #981 | — | — |
| 1994 | 211 | #906 | — | — |
| 1993 | 238 | #830 | — | — |
| 1992 | 211 | #922 | — | — |
| 1991 | 226 | #879 | — | — |
| 1990 | 236 | #832 | — | — |
| 1989 | 213 | #869 | — | — |
| 1988 | 170 | #975 | — | — |
| 1987 | 191 | #887 | — | — |
| 1986 | 192 | #862 | — | — |
| 1985 | 143 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1984 | 166 | #901 | — | — |
| 1983 | 173 | #877 | — | — |
| 1982 | 217 | #762 | — | — |
| 1981 | 196 | #813 | — | — |
| 1980 | 226 | #736 | — | — |
| 1979 | 272 | #640 | — | — |
| 1978 | 326 | #543 | — | — |
| 1977 | 418 | #468 | — | — |
| 1976 | 205 | #714 | — | — |
| 1975 | 177 | #790 | — | — |
| 1974 | 182 | #767 | — | — |
| 1973 | 103 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,969 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,995 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,039 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,957 | — | — |
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).