Yamil
Yamil was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,531 among boys’ names; 1,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Yamil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yamil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yamil?
#4,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Yamil fell from #4,073 in 2015 to #4,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 13.5 per million.
103 babies in 2008, the peak
Yamil peaked in 2008, when 103 boys were given it, #1,562 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,531 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,643 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,902 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,432 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,351 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,564 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,103 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,881 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,372 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,354 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,073 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,035 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,422 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,592 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,123 | 33.2 |
| 2010 | 81 | #1,814 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 92 | #1,706 | 46.4 |
| 2008 | 103 | #1,562 | 50.5 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,699 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,079 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,109 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,046 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,723 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,678 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,503 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,913 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,934 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,548 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,592 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,396 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,266 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,788 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,808 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,906 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,905 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,393 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,143 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,071 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,947 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,839 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,683 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,953 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,214 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,277 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,142 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,607 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,059 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,847 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,180 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,958 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,534 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,651 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yamil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,601 Americans recorded as Yamil, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yamil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yamil, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,601 Americans ever recorded as Yamil. The median Yamil alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,685 people named Yamil (267 women and girls, 2,418 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 242 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 891 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 383 |
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 Yamil born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,088 | 2.4× |
Where Yamil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yamil is most over-represented in Florida: since 1961 it was given 2.4 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 boys’ 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 Yamil with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yamil
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 Yamil and names like it
- Compare Yamil and KelanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYamil peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yamil since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Yamil.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yamil alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.