Jamil
Jamil was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,695 among boys’ names; 7,735 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,400 Americans named Jamil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jamil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jamil is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic جميل (jamīl).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jamil?
#2,695 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamil fell from #1,506 in 2015 to #2,695 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.4 to 28.1 per million.
222 babies in 1991, the peak
Jamil peaked in 1991, when 222 babies were given it (214 boys, #687 among boys’ names). The 48 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,695 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,402 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,142 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,014 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,177 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 86 | #1,798 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 92 | #1,710 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,667 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,506 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,496 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 89 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,519 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,282 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,235 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 156 | #1,161 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,118 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,190 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 157 | #1,056 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,008 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 164 | #977 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 171 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 186 | #863 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 193 | #830 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 149 | #968 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 146 | #952 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 151 | #905 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 159 | #867 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 161 | #852 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 199 | #743 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 174 | #799 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 193 | #742 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 214 | #687 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 189 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 169 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 141 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 157 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 151 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 142 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 117 | #809 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 143 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 150 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 139 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 158 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 153 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 157 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 147 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 140 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 93 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 85 | #874 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,159 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,830 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 28 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,643 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,933 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,600 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,083 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,037 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,735 Americans recorded as Jamil, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 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 Jamil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamil, and how old are they?
7,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 7,735 Americans ever recorded as Jamil. The median Jamil alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 7,428 people named Jamil (273 women and girls, 7,155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 64 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Jamil born?
The states with the most babies named Jamil are Texas, New York and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #1,982 | 0.5× |
| New York | 7 | #1,484 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,278 | 1.2× |
Where Jamil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamil is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1931 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jamil 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 69,443 babies since 1880, Jamil is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 335 babies (14%), the second 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 Jamil
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 Jamil and names like it
- Compare Jamil and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJamil peaked in 1991.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamil since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Jamil: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jamil.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamil alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.