Jamilah
- #3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births
- Last seen for boys in 1979 at #6,056
- Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 73 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,656since 1965
Jamilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Jamilah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,789 | 61 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,848 | 59 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,141 | 50 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,632 | 66 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,436 | 45 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,161 | 53 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,034 | 33 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,241 | 43 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,635 | 57 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,368 | 62 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,232 | 59 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,985 | 70 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,199 | 49 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,003 | 54 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,227 | 44 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,082 | 49 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,409 | 40 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #1,498 | 73 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #1,820 | 51 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jamilah! It came in at #5,817, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jamilah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,405 · 1 in 8,866
Best ever in a state: #470 in New Jersey, 1985.
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| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Jamilah
- 1 spot since 2024 (#3,516 → #3,517)
- 376 spots since 2020 (#3,141 → #3,517)
- 128 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1977 at #1,498 (73 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,002 girls born in 1977 were named Jamilah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.5% of all girls named Jamilah (544) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 22 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,528 |
| 1970s | 349 | #1,498 (1977) | #2,863 |
| 1980s | 474 | #1,809 (1985) | #2,221 |
| 1990s | 532 | #1,985 (1993) | #2,474 |
| 2000s | 442 | #2,635 (2001) | #3,432 |
| 2010s | 544 | #2,457 (2018) | #3,110 |
| 2020s | 293 | #2,789 (2023) | #3,309 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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