Yamile
Feminine · “beautiful”
Yamile is an Arabic name written by Spanish. Arab emigration to Latin America was large and early — Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian families settled across Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina from the late nineteenth century — and they brought their names, which Spanish then spelled by its own rules. The Y at the front is the clearest sign of that.
How old is the name Yamile?
Yamile first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Yamile alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,300 people named Yamile are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yamile most popular?
Yamile peaked in 2000, reaching #1029 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,913 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
Where it comes from
From jamil to Yamile
The story of Yamile
The Arab communities of Latin America are more than a century old and in some countries very large, and their names entered general Spanish-language use rather than staying inside those families — Yamile, Nayib, Yasmin, Amira and Salim all appear in Latin American records among people with no Arab ancestry at all. That is a genuine cultural transfer rather than a borrowing of individual names. Yamile reached American records with migration from Mexico and Central America, carrying two languages and one meaning.
Meaning
beautiful
The Arabic behind this name is jamil, beautiful, and its feminine jamila — a plain adjective in ordinary use, from a root about grace and good proportion. Spanish has no consonant matching the Arabic j at the front, and its own j is a throat sound entirely unlike it, so Spanish speakers reached for y instead. Yamil, Yamile and Yamila are the results, and they carry the Arabic meaning intact.
How the name formed
- jamil
- Jamila
- Yamile
Related forms: جميلة · Yamila · Jamile
Pronouncing Yamile
yah-MEE-leh
yah-MEE-leh, three syllables, stress in the middle, the final e fully sounded as Spanish requires. English speakers tend to silence that last vowel and produce yah-MEEL in two, which loses a syllable the name has.
Nicknames for Yamile
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
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 2000204 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1029reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%5 in 2025, from 5
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.
Yamile in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- جميلة in Arabic — transliteration
- Yamila in Spanish — same name
- Jamile in Portuguese — same name
Yamiles among us
people named Yamile are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Yamile
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 Tommy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yamile's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tommy climbed just as high around 1928, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tommy's path sketches the road Yamile is walking now.
Yamile 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
Yamile beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yamile in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, short and easy to explain in a single word.
- It works in Spanish and Arabic alike, and the spelling is correct in the first of those.
- Yami is a ready short form that needs no explanation in either language.
- English silences the final e, which shortens the name by a syllable and changes its shape.
- Jamile, Yamila and Yamilet are all in use, so the spelling gets asked about.
- The Y is a Spanish solution to an Arabic sound, and Arabic speakers may read it as a respelling rather than a transliteration.
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Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yamiles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Yamile are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yamile in 2025?
- Yamile ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yamile?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Yamile — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yamile with classmates?
- Yamile will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yamile
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