Jameel
Jameel was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,107 among boys’ names; 3,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Jameel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jameel?
#5,107 among boys’ names, 2025
Jameel fell from #3,319 in 2015 to #5,107 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 11.1 per million.
127 babies in 1977, the peak
Jameel peaked in 1977, when 127 babies were given it (120 boys, #779 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,107 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,953 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,503 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,495 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,946 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,473 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,016 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,650 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,578 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,905 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,319 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,062 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,149 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,652 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,871 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,574 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,721 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,697 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,580 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,069 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,040 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,033 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 58 | #1,992 | 29.4 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,955 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,662 | 36.0 |
| 2000 | 68 | #1,688 | 34.6 |
| 1999 | 56 | #1,783 | 29.2 |
| 1998 | 57 | #1,775 | 29.8 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,674 | 31.3 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,427 | 38.5 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,276 | 44.1 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,255 | 44.5 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,153 | 47.9 |
| 1992 | 101 | #1,090 | 50.6 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,160 | 44.5 |
| 1990 | 63 | #1,410 | 30.7 |
| 1989 | 52 | #1,550 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,621 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,693 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,518 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,150 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,137 | 35.5 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,068 | 38.5 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,010 | 44.6 |
| 1981 | 90 | #951 | 50.2 |
| 1980 | 111 | #838 | 62.2 |
| 1979 | 117 | #806 | 68.0 |
| 1978 | 123 | #762 | 74.9 |
| 1977 | 120 | #779 | 73.0 |
| 1976 | 74 | #972 | 47.2 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,161 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,423 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,164 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,237 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,491 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,792 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,396 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jameel has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jameel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameel, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,058 Americans ever recorded as Jameel. The median Jameel alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 2,669 people named Jameel (72 women and girls, 2,597 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 588 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 833 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 417 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jameel born?
The states with the most babies named Jameel are Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 238 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 234 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| New York | 224 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 182 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 134 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 90 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 42 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jameel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jameel is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1968 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jameel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,115 babies since 1880, Jameel is the fifth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 340 babies (5.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jameel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jameel and names like it
- Compare Jameel and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJameel peaked in 1977.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameel since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jameel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jameel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.