Jameel
Last seen for girls in 1991 at #11,509 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 123 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,040since 1968
Jameel over time
Rank among boys' names. Jameel has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,464 | 33 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,912 | 27 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,426 | 22 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,566 | 49 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,885 | 41 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,299 | 34 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,038 | 37 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,122 | 35 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,625 | 29 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,852 | 41 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,531 | 30 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,702 | 45 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,684 | 46 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,062 | 64 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,035 | 61 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,024 | 59 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,987 | 58 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,943 | 57 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,659 | 70 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,681 | 68 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,778 | 56 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,768 | 57 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,421 | 73 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,275 | 84 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,254 | 86 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,155 | 94 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,094 | 101 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1990 | — | #1,409 | 63 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,550 | 52 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,618 | 44 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,511 | 44 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,147 | 66 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,134 | 64 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,067 | 69 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,006 | 81 | |
| 1981 | — | #947 | 90 | |
| 1980 | — | #836 | 111 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #805 | 117 |
| 1978 | — | #760 | 123 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #778 | 120 |
| 1976 | — | #969 | 74 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,134 | 21 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,124 | 19 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jameel! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jameel is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#416 · 1 in 7,155
- Georgia#470 · 1 in 5,088
- New York#831 · 1 in 14,031
- California#868 · 1 in 15,868
Best ever in a state: #224 in New Jersey, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #416 | 10 | 1 in 7,155 |
| Georgia | #470 | 7 | 1 in 5,088 |
| New York | #831 | 8 | 1 in 14,031 |
| California | #868 | 10 | 1 in 15,868 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jameel
- 155 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,045)
- 619 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #5,045)
- 1,746 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #5,045)
- Biggest jump: 1,165 spots in 1976 (#2,134 → #969)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 1981 (#836 → #947)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1978 at #760 (123 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1976–1981
- Highest: 1 in 13,348 boys born in 1978 were named Jameel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.1% of all boys named Jameel (763) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 515 | #760 (1978) | #2,015 |
| 1980s | 661 | #836 (1980) | #1,250 |
| 1990s | 763 | #1,094 (1992) | #1,399 |
| 2000s | 576 | #1,659 (2001) | #2,134 |
| 2010s | 366 | #2,566 (2017) | #3,152 |
| 2020s | 154 | #3,464 (2022) | #4,202 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jameel in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 21,203 of them was named Jameel, which outranked 85.1% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).