Jamilah

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jamila in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 9 more, Yamila in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, BR Brazil and 5 more, Джамиля in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more 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●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Jamilah is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name735 records spelled Jamilah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Also written Jamīlah

• Pashto given name50 records spelled Jamilah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Afghanistan, Malaysia

  Also written Jamīlah

38 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●

Jamilah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, beautiful

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• A7. beautiful; elegant; fair

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 60 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Jamilah Tangazab. 1971NGNigerian journalist
• Jamilah Habsaouib. 1977FRFrench politician
• Jamilah Lemieuxb. 1984USAmerican columnist
• Jamilah Sherallyb. 1987NLtropical doctor from the Netherlands
• Jamilah LovibondAUAustralian politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 147 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jamilah?

We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Jamilah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Jamilah have the most bearers?

Jamilah is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled yamila.

How common is Jamilah compared with other names?

In Argentina, Jamilah is the 227th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Jamilah a male or female name?

Jamilah 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 Jamilah mean?

Recorded meaning: Arabic; beautiful.