Jamilah
Jamilah was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,542 among girls’ names; 2,672 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Jamilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 13 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamilah?
#3,542 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamilah fell from #3,405 in 2015 to #3,542 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 26.8 per million.
79 babies in 1977, the peak
Jamilah peaked in 1977, when 79 babies were given it (73 girls, #1,506 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,542 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,539 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,799 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,072 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,865 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,160 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,636 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,467 | 42.3 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,452 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,155 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,405 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,944 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,738 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,394 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,027 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,060 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,174 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,737 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,739 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,526 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,542 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,655 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,064 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,259 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,644 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,180 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,377 | 35.0 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,983 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,457 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,861 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,429 | 30.1 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,232 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,987 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,249 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,627 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,610 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,309 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,376 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,207 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,011 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,816 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,237 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,284 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,087 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,422 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,552 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,741 | 39.2 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,923 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,506 | 47.6 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,824 | 34.8 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,766 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,144 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,389 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,211 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,647 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,867 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,902 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,434 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,079 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,081 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamilah has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jamilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamilah, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,672 Americans ever recorded as Jamilah. The median Jamilah alive today is 27 years old; half are between 13 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,106 people named Jamilah (2,089 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 789 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 733 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 692 |
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 Jamilah born?
The states with the most babies named Jamilah are New York, California and Illinois, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 263 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 240 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 104 | #1,500 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 82 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jamilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamilah is most over-represented in New York: since 1965 it was given 1.5 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 girls’ 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 Jamilah 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 16,940 babies since 1880, Jamilah is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 215 babies (20%), again the second 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 Jamilah
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 Jamilah and names like it
- Compare Jamilah and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamilah peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamilah since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jamilah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamilah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.