Jamil
Masculine · “beautiful”
Jamil is given to both — 7,481 boys and 254 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Jamil is beautiful in Arabic — and the root j-m-l also gives the word for a camel, which Arabic did not find odd.
How old is the name Jamil?
Jamil first appears in US birth records in 1931 — 94 years ago. The typical Jamil alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 7,200 people named Jamil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamil most popular?
Jamil peaked in 1978, reaching #669 nationally. Today it ranks #2676, 2,007 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From jamil to Jamil
The story of Jamil
The root j-m-l gives beauty, a camel and a complete sentence — Arabic lexicographers explain the range through the idea of something whole and well-formed. Jamil ibn Ma'mar was a seventh-century poet whose devotion to one woman gave a whole genre its name. The name is in current American use.
Meaning
beautiful, handsome
From the Arabic jamil, 'beautiful' or 'handsome', from the root j-m-l, which also gives jamal, 'camel', and jumla, 'a whole' or 'sentence'. Lexicographers connect the senses through completeness. The Arabic is documented.
How the name formed
- jamil
- Jamil
Related forms: جميل · Jamil · Cemil
Pronouncing Jamil
jah-MEEL
Two syllables, stress on the second. Turkish Cemil is jeh-MEEL.
Nicknames for Jamil
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1931
- Most boys named
- 1992193 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #669reached in 1978
- Change vs 2024
- −17.2%48 in 2025, from 58
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jamil in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- جميل in Arabic — transliteration
- Jamil in Urdu — same name
- Cemil in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, New York, California.
Jamils among us
people named Jamil are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 35,585 born in 2025 was named Jamil
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Delton test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamil's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Delton climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Delton's path sketches the road Jamil is walking now.
Jamil sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jamil is headed
Jamil should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jamil beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamil in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That beauty, a camel and a whole sentence share a root is a first-rate fact.
- A poet who gave a genre its name carries it.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- It reads as specifically Arabic.
- Jamil and Jameel are both in circulation.
- The Jam clipping is an ordinary English noun.
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Masculine · #2676 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jamils are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,200 people named Jamil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jamil in 2025?
- Jamil ranks #2676 among US boy names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamil?
- About 1 in every 35,585 US boys born in 2025 was named Jamil — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamil with classmates?
- Jamil will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jamil
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