How rare is the name Jamila?

8,585 people in the United States have the first name Jamila, about 1 in 35,181. It ranks #2,728 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JAMILA

#2,728

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,585
About
1 in 35,181
This common or more
80.7%
Who bears it

Of the 8,585 people named Jamila, 58.1% reported their origin as Black, 13.3% as White and 12.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jamila peaked in 1977, when 418 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19622025
Peak year
1977
Births that year
418
In 2025*
122 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,322 babies have been given the name since 1962. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jamila by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,399. The largest share of babies named Jamila, 37.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#8,30761
1970s#1,3991,781
1980s#1,4881,887
1990s#1,7931,834
2000s#3,503930
2010s#3,3931,074
2020s#3,046755
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–8024.6%
Millennials 1981–9637.7%
Generation Z 1997–1218.4%
2013 and later19.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jamila is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamila has been most common in District of Columbia (4×), Florida (2.3×), and New York (2.3×), and least common in Indiana (0.3×).

5,765 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Jamila

1 other first name also has 8,585 people.

#2,728 Hao · 8,585

Either side of Jamila

#2,727 Jamel · 8,587#2,728 Hao · 8,585#2,730 Rajesh · 8,582#2,731 Sandeep · 8,581

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jamila, most common first.

#3,013 Jamil · 7,428#7,295 Jamilah · 2,106#11,985 Jamilla · 1,053#13,642 Jamela · 880#15,735 Jamile · 727#21,583 Jamyla · 469#22,184 Jamilia · 451#26,868 Jamill · 344

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