Yamila
Yamila was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,347 among girls’ names; 1,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Yamila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yamila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yamila?
#4,347 among girls’ names, 2025
Yamila rose from #8,421 in 2015 to #4,347 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 20.5 per million.
133 babies in 2017, the peak
Yamila peaked in 2017, when 133 girls were given it, #1,635 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,347 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,572 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,906 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,215 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,488 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,254 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,845 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,786 | 67.6 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,635 | 77.0 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,445 | 42.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,421 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,433 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,476 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,857 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,492 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,072 | 30.9 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,101 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,122 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,292 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,568 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,638 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,274 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,724 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,879 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,304 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,690 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,346 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,002 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,474 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,389 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,754 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,718 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,411 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,285 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,507 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,798 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,138 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,033 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,208 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,390 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,438 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,051 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yamila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yamila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yamila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yamila, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,216 Americans ever recorded as Yamila. The median Yamila alive today is 10 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,931 people named Yamila (1,924 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 971 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 88 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 444 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 663 |
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 Yamila born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,754 | 1.6× |
Where Yamila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yamila is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.6 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 Yamila 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,967 babies since 1880, Yamila is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 38 babies (87%), the 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 Yamila
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 Yamila and names like it
- Compare Yamila and YamileBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYamila peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yamila since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Yamila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yamila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.