Jāmila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jāmila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 67th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَمِيلَة (jamīla, “beautiful”).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 984(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 1K
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 Jāmila 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 984 (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jamila in US United States, NG Nigeria, MA Morocco and 3 more and Yamila in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay.
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”).
Sources 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)
Jāmila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #448 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Jamila | 61 |
| TZ Tanzania | #394 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Jamila | 20 |
| AR Argentina | #247 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 936 | 60 | Yamila | 124 |
| MA Morocco | #186 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Jamila | 65 |
| AF Afghanistan | #67 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Jamila | 14 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #379 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 984 | 1 | Jamila | 33 |
| US United States | — | 8,585 | 1 in 39K | 8.6K | Jamila | 370 |
| UY Uruguay | #110 | 3,664as Yamila | 1 in 925 | 3.7K | Yamila | 31 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 Jāmila 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 Jāmila a male or female name?
- Jāmila 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.
- In which country does Jāmila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Jāmila in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamila.
- How common is the name Jāmila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,585 people named Jāmila in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Jāmila compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Jāmila is the 448th most common given name of 138,191 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%C4%81milaThe 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, “Jāmila” — the 448th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.