Jamillah
Jamillah was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,048 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Jamillah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 32 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamillah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamillah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,173, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1975, the peak
Jamillah peaked in 1975, when 60 girls were given it, #1,632 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,173 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,252 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,615 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,668 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,855 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,486 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,272 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,628 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,563 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,389 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #14,302 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,227 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,032 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,314 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,292 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,220 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,606 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,791 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,917 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,748 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,979 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,495 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,610 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,881 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,398 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,901 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,885 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,003 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,060 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,308 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,287 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,330 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,541 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,586 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,968 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,042 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,727 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,788 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,874 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,503 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,354 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,166 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,138 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,350 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,632 | 41.2 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,859 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,896 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,682 | 34.8 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,221 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,354 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,274 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamillah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamillah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamillah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamillah, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,048 Americans ever recorded as Jamillah. The median Jamillah alive today is 44 years old; half are between 32 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 939 people named Jamillah (929 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,001 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 443 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 366 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Jamillah born?
The states with the most babies named Jamillah are New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 113 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| New York | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jamillah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamillah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 3.7 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 Jamillah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jamillah?
Jamillah is a less common spelling of Jamila: SSA has recorded 1,048 Jamillah and 8,322 Jamila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,235 babies since 1880, Jamillah is the fifth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 186 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamillah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jamillah
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 Jamillah and names like it
- Compare Jamillah and JamilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJamillah peaked in 1975.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamillah since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Jamillah.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jamillah alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.