Jamila

Where Jamila comes from

From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jamila
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti born
    Palestinian politician
  2. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1976
    Jamila Afghani born
    feminist and women's rights activist in Afghanistan
  4. 1977
    Peak, #468
    418 babies named Jamila — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #813.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Jamila Afghani · feminist and women's rights activist in Afghanistan, born 1976
  • Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti · Palestinian politician, 1957–2023
  • Jamila Abbas · computer scientist, software engineer, businesswoman and entrepreneur in Kenya., born 1984
  • Jamila Gordon · Somali Australian entrepreneur, born 1980
  • Jamila Schäfer · German politician, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.