Jamela
Jamela was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,442 among girls’ names; 945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamela?
#12,442 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamela fell from #12,296 in 2015 to #12,442 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
35 babies in 1986, the peak
Jamela peaked in 1986, when 35 girls were given it, #2,747 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,442 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,618 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,149 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,778 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,856 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,130 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,117 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,110 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,296 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,388 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,468 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,832 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,695 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,770 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,297 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,539 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,931 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,982 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,161 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,828 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,302 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,239 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,889 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,607 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,511 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,281 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,097 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,791 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,615 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,417 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,364 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,710 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,856 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,455 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,341 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,179 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,903 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,747 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,521 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,551 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,601 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,586 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,778 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,394 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,816 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,550 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,026 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,026 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,224 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,552 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,004 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,903 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,737 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,193 | 4.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,179 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,172 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,685 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamela, and how old are they?
An estimated 919 Americans named Jamela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 880 people named Jamela (877 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 883 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 17,032 babies since 1880, Jamela is the fifth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 241 babies (2.9%), the seventh 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 Jamela
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 Jamela and names like it
- Compare Jamela and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamela peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamela since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Jamela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.