In 2025, 33 US girls were named Yamila, making it the 4,348th most common girls’ name of the year, down 776 places from #3,572 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 44 girls named Yamila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,635, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 133. For comparison, it was #8,425 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yamila in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 1,216 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 542 babies named Yamila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 608 US girls were named Yamila; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Yamilah are summarised on this page.