Jamille — unisex name
456 babies named Jamille in U.S. Social Security records since 1963, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Jamille was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Jamille in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jamille
The Social Security Administration has registered 456 babies named Jamille between 1963 and 2018, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jamille currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Jamille is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 260 additional births since 1972.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jamille performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jamille shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jamille in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jamille 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 456 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.
Jamille at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jamille popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1963
- Peak year (1991)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 56 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
456 total births across 56 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 21 births in a single year.
Jamille popularity over time — boys
260 total births recorded since 1972 (Jamille as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Jamille accounts for 36% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jamille by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 140 births that decade — 31% of Jamille's all-time total
Jamille decade highlights
- Peak decade 140 births
- Runner-up 122 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jamille's strongest decade
140 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Jamille by state
Where Jamille concentrates geographically — total births since 1963
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 1.1% |
5 of 456 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 1.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1963–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.