Jamila — #1560 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jamila

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,198 babies named Jamila between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jamila currently holds the #1560 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 418 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jamila performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,887 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jamila shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,076 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jamila in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jamila in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,198 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.