Jamelia
Jamelia was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,729 among girls’ names; 930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamelia?
#9,729 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamelia fell from #8,170 in 2015 to #9,729 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
40 babies in 1987, the peak
Jamelia peaked in 1987, when 40 girls were given it, #2,541 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,729 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,769 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,511 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,994 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,539 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,834 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,499 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,532 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,071 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,102 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,170 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,671 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,535 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,648 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,953 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,649 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,627 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,661 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,778 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,923 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,427 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,057 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,161 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,506 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,159 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,939 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,020 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,451 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,098 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,939 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,011 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,124 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,149 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,097 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,109 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,573 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,712 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,936 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,541 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,583 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,652 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,448 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,170 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,229 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,604 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,354 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,584 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,967 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,032 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,995 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,605 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,067 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 910 Americans named Jamelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 18 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 809 people named Jamelia (798 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 845 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 14,032 babies since 1880, Jamelia is the fourth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 193 babies (5.2%), again the fourth most given.
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 Jamelia
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 Jamelia and names like it
- Compare Jamelia and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamelia peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jamelia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamelia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.