Jameela
Jameela was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,958 among girls’ names; 926 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jameela?
#6,958 among girls’ names, 2025
Jameela rose from #7,412 in 2015 to #6,958 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 10.0 per million.
30 babies in 1993, the peak
Jameela peaked in 1993, when 30 girls were given it, #3,620 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,958 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,689 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,265 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,379 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,038 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,223 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,510 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,318 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,574 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,035 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,412 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,118 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,305 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,596 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,638 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,737 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,255 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,724 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,262 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,019 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,648 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,211 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,412 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,977 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,992 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,320 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,780 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,222 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,016 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,231 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,899 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,620 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,426 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,971 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,045 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,925 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,918 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,402 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,585 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,768 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,659 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,927 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,786 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,209 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,073 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,298 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,775 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,955 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,443 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,222 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,165 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,929 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,170 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jameela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jameela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameela, and how old are they?
An estimated 907 Americans named Jameela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 12 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Jameela (869 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,823 babies since 1880, Jameela is the sixth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 198 babies (8.1%), the third 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 Jameela
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 Jameela and names like it
- Compare Jameela and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJameela peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameela since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Jameela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jameela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.