Jàmila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jàmila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 67th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”). Jàmila is also written Жәмила in Cyrillic and ჯამილა in Georgian.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 640(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 700
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 850
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jàmila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 636 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jàmila in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jamila in IN India, US United States, NG Nigeria and 4 more and Yamila in AR Argentina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A Handbook of African Names
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jàmila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 85 | Jamila | 63 |
| NG Nigeria | #448 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Jamila | 61 |
| TZ Tanzania | #394 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | — | Jamila | 20 |
| AF Afghanistan | #67 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | — | Jamila | 14 |
| MA Morocco | #186 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 698 | — | Jamila | 65 |
| AR Argentina | #247 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 60 | Yamila | 124 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #379 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 848 | 1 | Jamila | 33 |
| US United States | — | 8,585 | 1 in 39K | 8.6K | Jamila | 370 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jàmila mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and 6 other sources.
- Is Jàmila a male or female name?
- Jàmila 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Jàmila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 thousand people named Jàmila in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamila. After it come Nigeria, Tanzania, Afghanistan and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jàmila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,585 people named Jàmila in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Jàmila compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Jàmila is the 67th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A0milaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Jàmila” — ranked 31566th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.