Jameelah
Jameelah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,728 among girls’ names; 1,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Jameelah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 19 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jameelah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jameelah?
#9,728 among girls’ names, 2025
Jameelah fell from #8,169 in 2015 to #9,728 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
82 babies in 1978, the peak
Jameelah peaked in 1978, when 82 girls were given it, #1,414 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,728 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,655 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,686 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,419 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,808 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,728 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,087 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,607 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,648 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,163 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,169 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,560 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,930 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,261 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,683 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,861 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,187 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,660 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,930 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,634 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,724 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,438 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,898 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,748 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,158 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,562 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,365 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,700 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,096 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,491 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,262 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,290 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,148 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,358 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,234 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,422 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,405 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,067 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,731 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,997 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,455 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,871 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,735 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,341 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,922 | 33.6 |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,987 | 31.9 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,783 | 38.0 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,414 | 53.5 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,543 | 45.7 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,115 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,372 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,166 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,899 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jameelah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jameelah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jameelah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jameelah, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,312 Americans ever recorded as Jameelah. The median Jameelah alive today is 34 years old; half are between 19 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,065 people named Jameelah (1,060 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 309 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 449 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 217 |
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 Jameelah born?
The states with the most babies named Jameelah are California, New Jersey and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 54 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Jameelah 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 7,801 babies since 1880, Jameelah is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 93 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Jameelah
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 Jameelah and names like it
- Compare Jameelah and JamilahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJameelah peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jameelah since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Jameelah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jameelah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.