Jamiel
Jamiel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,803 among boys’ names; 883 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamiel?
#12,803 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamiel fell from #7,265 in 2015 to #12,803 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
35 babies in 1981, the peak
Jamiel peaked in 1981, when 35 babies were given it (27 boys, #2,012 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,803 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,322 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,957 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,243 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,451 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,215 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,224 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,154 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,911 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,112 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,265 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,243 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,328 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,454 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,068 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,425 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,182 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,341 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,175 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,418 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,379 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,571 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,433 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,958 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,567 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,683 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,437 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,277 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,128 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,266 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,613 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,806 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,556 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,514 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,773 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,223 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,700 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,464 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,832 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,551 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,761 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,473 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,237 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,789 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,012 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,478 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,125 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,753 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,401 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,547 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,527 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,682 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,857 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,899 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,492 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,018 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,669 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 883 Americans recorded as Jamiel, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 847 Americans named Jamiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 739 people named Jamiel (80 women and girls, 659 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 69,115 babies since 1880, Jamiel is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 340 babies (1.5%), again the eighth 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 Jamiel
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 Jamiel and names like it
- Compare Jamiel and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamiel peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamiel since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jamiel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamiel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.