Jamilla
Jamilla was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,907 among girls’ names; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Jamilla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 22 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamilla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamilla?
#13,907 among girls’ names, 2025
Jamilla fell from #9,176 in 2015 to #13,907 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.7 per million.
42 babies in 1988, the peak
Jamilla peaked in 1988, when 42 girls were given it, #2,553 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,907 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,537 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,684 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,630 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,809 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,152 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,357 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,534 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,003 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,687 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,176 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,204 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,856 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,262 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,388 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,741 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,833 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,662 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,529 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,284 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,379 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,987 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,718 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,749 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,916 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,208 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,925 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,416 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,269 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,360 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,891 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,388 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,119 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,838 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,170 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,242 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,000 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,553 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,201 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,800 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,723 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,776 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,274 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,787 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,743 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,025 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,596 | 21.8 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,764 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,861 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,330 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,905 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,102 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,842 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,622 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,877 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,411 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamilla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamilla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamilla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamilla, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,181 Americans ever recorded as Jamilla. The median Jamilla alive today is 34 years old; half are between 22 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,053 people named Jamilla (1,045 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,098 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 206 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 519 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 278 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jamilla?
Jamilla is a less common spelling of Jamila: SSA has recorded 1,181 Jamilla and 8,322 Jamila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,768 babies since 1880, Jamilla is the third most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 231 babies (2.6%), the seventh 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 Jamilla
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 Jamilla and names like it
- Compare Jamilla and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamilla peaked in 1988.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamilla since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jamilla.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamilla alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.