Jamil
Last seen for girls in 2006 at #17,168 · #2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
Given to boys 96.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 157 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,481since 1931
Jamil over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamil has never cracked the top 600 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 | — | #2,676 | 48 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,393 | 58 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,014 | 75 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,136 | 69 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,000 | 74 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,167 | 64 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,790 | 86 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,707 | 92 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,661 | 95 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,706 | 91 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,502 | 110 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,492 | 108 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,675 | 89 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,514 | 106 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,279 | 134 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,232 | 143 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,160 | 156 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,115 | 164 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,083 | 169 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,190 | 141 |
| 2005 | — | #1,053 | 157 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,007 | 164 | |
| 2003 | — | #975 | 164 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #939 | 171 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #863 | 186 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #829 | 193 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #966 | 149 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #953 | 146 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #906 | 151 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #868 | 159 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #853 | 161 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #742 | 199 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #801 | 174 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #744 | 193 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #691 | 214 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #741 | 189 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #758 | 169 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #798 | 141 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #729 | 157 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #738 | 151 |
| 1985 | — | #746 | 142 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #808 | 117 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #721 | 143 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #712 | 150 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #735 | 139 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #690 | 158 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #691 | 153 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #669 | 157 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #701 | 147 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #700 | 140 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #861 | 93 |
| 1974 | — | #867 | 85 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,093 | 55 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #1,149 | 50 |
| 1971 | — | #1,214 | 46 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #1,178 | 49 |
| 1969 | — | #1,810 | 21 | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #1,478 | 28 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #1,906 | 17 |
| 1966 | — | #1,891 | 17 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,625 | 23 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,900 | 18 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamil! It came in at #3,763, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1931–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamil is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#310 · 1 in 3,104
- Pennsylvania#323 · 1 in 4,281
- North Carolina#348 · 1 in 3,377
- Missouri#471 · 1 in 7,379
- Virginia#518 · 1 in 7,561
Best ever in a state: #157 in Delaware, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #310 | 15 | 1 in 3,104 |
| Pennsylvania | #323 | 18 | 1 in 4,281 |
| North Carolina | #348 | 12 | 1 in 3,377 |
| Missouri | #471 | 5 | 1 in 7,379 |
| Virginia | #518 | 5 | 1 in 7,561 |
| Michigan | #589 | 6 | 1 in 10,856 |
| Georgia | #624 | 5 | 1 in 8,636 |
| Ohio | #670 | 5 | 1 in 15,417 |
| New York | #691 | 12 | 1 in 10,087 |
| Illinois | #706 | 7 | 1 in 11,752 |
| Texas | #994 | 8 | 1 in 18,396 |
| California | #1,156 | 9 | 1 in 24,820 |
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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 Jamil
- 283 spots since 2024 (#2,393 → #2,676)
- 509 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,676)
- 1,174 spots since 2015 (#1,502 → #2,676)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1974 (#1,093 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 1995 (#742 → #853)
- Debuted 1931
- Peaked 1978 at #669 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 42 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1974–2003
- Highest: 1 in 9,441 boys born in 1991 were named Jamil (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,585 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #669 in 1978, was only 1 in 10,458 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.2% of all boys named Jamil (1,735) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,763 (1931) | #3,763 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 25 | #2,964 (1955) | #3,516 |
| 1960s | 162 | #1,478 (1968) | #2,187 |
| 1970s | 975 | #669 (1978) | #912 |
| 1980s | 1,467 | #690 (1980) | #744 |
| 1990s | 1,735 | #691 (1991) | #827 |
| 2000s | 1,665 | #829 (2000) | #1,021 |
| 2010s | 1,054 | #1,232 (2010) | #1,556 |
| 2020s | 388 | #2,000 (2021) | #2,231 |
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.
Jamil in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 13,016 of them was named Jamil, which outranked 90.2% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).