Jamil
Jamil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 670th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 580.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991214 births
- Best rank
- #670in 1978
- Since 1931
- 7,686people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,432 boys have been named Jamil in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 214 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 23%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 254 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jamil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 24 | |
| 1960s | 162 | |
| 1970s | 975 | |
| 1980s | 1,467 | |
| 1990s | 1,735 | |
| 2000s | 1,665 | |
| 2010s | 1,054 | |
| 2020s | 340 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Jamil was the 691st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Jamil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Quanpeak 1995
- Teronpeak 1994
- Jerronpeak 1989
- Jovanpeak 1998
- Khristopherpeak 1991
- Rigobertopeak 2001
- Terronpeak 1992
- Dontaypeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.