In 2025, 23 US boys were named Yamil, making it the 4,532nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,115 places from #5,647 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 17 boys named Yamil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,562, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #4,075 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yamil in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 1,601 US babies have been given the name, 4.8% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 629 babies named Yamil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 257 US boys were named Yamil; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamil (7,735 babies since 1880) and Yamile (1,328 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yamel and Yamille are summarised on this page.