Meaning not yet researched.
Jamilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,506 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,506 in 1977; #3,543 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,543 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,506.
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Jamilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,506 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 73 (1977).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Jamilah, making it the 3,543rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #3,539 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 44 girls named Jamilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,506, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #3,405 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamilah in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 6 babies. In all, 2,672 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 544 babies named Jamilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 528 US girls were named Jamilah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamila (8,322 babies since 1880) and Jameelah (1,312 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamellah 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: Jamellah (22).
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 Jamilah 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 | 43 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,263 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,741 | 5 | #6,468 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,923 | 5 | #6,218 |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,506 | 6 | #5,427 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,868 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,904 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,436 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,082 | — | — |
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).