# Jamil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jamil/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jamille |
| US babies named this | 7,735 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,481 / 254 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 681, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جميل (jamīl).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 11 | 7,163 |
| 1990 | 9 | 8,766 |
| 1991 | 8 | 9,676 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,325 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,026 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,405 |
| 1995 | 7 | 10,982 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,452 |
| 1997 | 6 | 12,705 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,081 |
| 1999 | 9 | 9,824 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,868 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,242 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,518 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,319 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 134 | 1,282 |
| 2012 | 106 | 1,519 |
| 2013 | 89 | 1,679 |
| 2014 | 108 | 1,496 |
| 2015 | 110 | 1,506 |
| 2016 | 91 | 1,711 |
| 2017 | 95 | 1,667 |
| 2018 | 92 | 1,710 |
| 2019 | 86 | 1,798 |
| 2020 | 64 | 2,177 |
| 2021 | 74 | 2,015 |
| 2022 | 69 | 2,143 |
| 2023 | 75 | 2,018 |
| 2024 | 58 | 2,402 |
| 2025 | 48 | 2,695 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 929 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,247 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 23 | 1,159 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 13 | 1,782 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,469 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Jamil

- Jamil Mahuad, 41st Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador
- Jamil Hasanli, Azerbaijani politician and historian
- Jamil ibn Ma'mar, Arab poet
- Jamil Walker Smith, American actor
- Jamil Wilson, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Mashadi Jamil Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (1875–1928)
- Jamil Adam, Footballer (born 1991)
- Jamil El Reedy, Egyptian alpine skier
- Gamil Ratib, Egyptian actor (1926-2018)
- H. Rap Brown, American activist (1943-2025)

## 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.