Jamila

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jamila is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Tunisia it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: beautiful; refers to appearance at birth.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia1 in 627◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1K
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈25K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
328 ●

743K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.5K ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

YamilaLatin · Spanish●688K records
ДжамиляCyrillic · Russian●100K records
ᲯამილაGeorgian · Georgian●1.4K records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yamila in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, BR Brazil and 5 more, Джамиля in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Jamilah in MY Malaysia, PH Philippines and Djamila in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

beautiful; refers to appearance at birth

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jamila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#227645,823330K rec.—60Yamila117
IN India#898419,788129K rec.—85Jamila58
RU Russia#33690,44750K rec.—#221Джамиля131
MY Malaysia#6544,81812K rec.—5.2KJamilah46
PK Pakistan#24822,784298 rec.—listedJamila41
NG Nigeria#55913,22013K rec.——Jamila64
UY Uruguay#12913,0896.9K rec.—20Yamila30
MA Morocco#1679,4769.9K rec.——Jamila61
US United States—8,55480K rec.1 in 39K8.6KJamila328
FR France#8726,97531K rec.1 in 9.7K7KDjamila238
SY Syria#5766,6787K rec.——Jamila10
TN Tunisia#356,3531.2K rec.—1.6KJamila30

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi373K48%
  • English86K11%
  • Portuguese57K7%
  • French49K6%
  • Urdu29K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi373,32548%
English85,98911%
Portuguese56,5607%
French49,2066%
Urdu29,2854%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jamila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name81K records spelled Jamila31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian

    Also written Jâmila, Jamilà, Jămîĺā, Jåmilä, Jámila

  • Indonesian given name29K records spelled Jamila4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Spain, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jãmíla, Jāmila

  • a separate given name7.5K records spelled Jamila4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, India, Ethiopia

    Also written Jamīlā, Jamīla, Jămilă

  • Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Jamila9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jàmîlà, Jámîlā, Jämïlâ, Jåmïlâ, Jâmïlà

  • Amharic given name415 records spelled Jamila3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Turkmenistan, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Jemile, ጀሚለ

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jamila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Beautiful (Somali)Jumoke Loved by all (Yoruba-

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

  • Beautiful

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Jamila är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’vacker’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Somali/Swahili/Arabic: 'beautiful, elegant'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In French, Arabic feminine of Jamil, 'beautiful'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900192019401960198020003.3K · 1962

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Jamila in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18994
19001
19081
19092
19101
19111
19121
19132
19147
19152
191616
191726
191812
191938
192051
192127
192281
192357
192497
192573
1926101
1927145
1928131
1929294
1930187
1931230
1932500
1933307
1934652
1935445
1936535
1937687
1938542
1939920
1940699
1941806
19421,297
1943861
19441,483
19451,229
19461,519
19471,671
19481,186
19491,612
19501,587
19511,581
19522,214
19531,439
19542,037
19551,912
19562,045
19572,040
19582,279
19592,869
19602,334
19612,550
19623,334
19632,686
19643,147
19652,790
19662,878
19673,209
19682,633
19692,712
19702,861
19712,629
19722,879
19732,505
19742,246
19752,309
19762,380
19772,257
19782,147
19791,940
19801,508
19811,907
19821,945
19832,187
19841,751
19851,670
19861,573
19871,528
19881,170
19891,179
19901,049
19911,092
19921,130
1993956
1994744
1995504
1996317
1997429
1998137
199924
20005
20024
20032
20072
2008392
200923
2010343
2011169
2012192
2013164
2014285
201593
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 107 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Jamila Massey, b. 1934Jamila Gavin, b. 1941Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti, b. 1957Jamila Wideman, b. 1975Jamila Madeira, b. 1975Jamila Afghani, b. 1976Jamila Bey, b. 1976Jamila Schäfer, b. 1993Jamila Velazquez, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 90 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Jamila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.6K#2,728
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20245.2K#1,651
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.2K#3,738
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.9K#1,091
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.7K#3,341
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.5K#576
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19701.6K#8
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—965#1,737
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—874#1,788
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—852#2,314
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020730—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 778 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jamila?
We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Jamila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Jamila have the most bearers?
Jamila is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled yamila.
How common is Jamila compared with other names?
In Argentina, Jamila is the 227th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Jamila a male or female name?
Jamila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jamila mean?
Recorded meaning: beautiful; refers to appearance at birth
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jamila” — the 227th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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