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Yamil

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Yamil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
170.00% of boys
Peak year
2008103 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1961
1,578people given the name
Babies named Yamil, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,501 boys have been named Yamil in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 103 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 40%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 77 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Yamil
1960s10
1970s36
1980s116
1990s201
2000s596
2010s430
2020s112

In 2008, its biggest year

Yamil was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.

Names that rose and fell with Yamil

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.