Jamil
Jamil reached its high-water mark in 1991 at number 691, and has been recorded 7,735 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,676th. About 7,400 Jamils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jamil boys named Jamil
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,735
- Estimated living today
- 7,400
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 691st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,676th
- First recorded
- 1931
- Girls / boys
- 254 / 7,481
How old the living Jamils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,735 babies given the name since 1931, about 7,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jamils
- Jamil Mahuad (born 1949)41st Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador
- Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863–1936)Iraqi poet and philosopher
- Jamil Mardam Bey (1894–1960)Syrian politician
- Jamil Hasanli (born 1952)Azerbaijani politician and historian
- Jamil al-Midfai (1890–1958)Prime Minister of Iraq
- Jamil ibn Ma'mar (655–701)Arab poet
- Jamil al-Elshi (1883–1951)Syrian politician
People named Jamil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jamil is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jamil is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.9×), Pennsylvania (2.2×), Florida (2.2×), Georgia (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Jamil peaked:
Jamil elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jamil | 840 | 1,108th |
| England and Wales boys | Jamil | 681 | 555th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jamil by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 26 | 326th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jamil among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jamil | 44 | 82 |
| Finland girls | Jamil | — | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jamil lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 253 men called Jamil were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Jamil | 5 | 0.114 | 731 |
| Tarragona | Jamil | 14 | 0.032 | 1,676 |
| Barcelona | Jamil | 75 | 0.026 | 1,921 |
| Balears, Illes | Jamil | 15 | 0.024 | 2,254 |
| Palmas, Las | Jamil | 14 | 0.024 | 2,896 |
| Girona | Jamil | 8 | 0.019 | 2,513 |
Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jamil against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.