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Jamal vs Jamille

American parents have registered 33,501 Jamals since 1880, against 716 Jamilles. Jamal is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jamal against Jamille, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jamal Jamille

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jamal has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Jamal had 23 and Jamille had 6.

Side by side

  Jamal Jamille
Total US births 33,501716
Most in one year 1,25330
Babies in 2025 169under 5
Estimated living today 32,000690
Median age today 3238
Peak year 19931991
Best rank 233rd boys4,650th girls
Rank in 2025 1,196thunranked
First recorded 19461963
Girls / boys 266 / 33,235456 / 260

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jamilles alive today are over 38; half the Jamals are over 32. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jamal and Jamille.