# Jameel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jameel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,058 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,040 / 18 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 430, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 | 7,842 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,804 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,080 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | 2,872 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,655 |
| 2013 | 35 | 3,151 |
| 2014 | 37 | 3,064 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,320 |
| 2016 | 41 | 2,906 |
| 2017 | 49 | 2,579 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,654 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,018 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4,477 |
| 2021 | 27 | 3,950 |
| 2022 | 33 | 3,497 |
| 2023 | 33 | 3,505 |
| 2024 | 20 | 4,957 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,108 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,217 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,516 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## People named Jameel

- Jameel Warney, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Jameel McCline, American boxer
- Jim Al-Khalili, British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.