Jalîl

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jalîl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”).

  • ARArgentina1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 70K
  • ESSpain1 in 148K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

2,522 people

Record sources
189 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jalil in US United States, IN India.

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 جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”).

Cited for this meaning 9

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • The African book of names
  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Jalîl 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.

Where Jalîl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina2,5221 in 18K2.5K—1
US United States7151 in 465K2.5KJalil30
ES Spain3381 in 148K338—4
IN India1641 in 8.1M164Jalil3
BR Brazil1111 in 1.9M111——
NO Norway781 in 70K126—1
FI Finland221 in 253K74——
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——

2,522 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Hindi surname161 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Argentina, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Malay, Spanish

    Also written Jaleel, Jalil, Джалил, Джалиль, Ялил

  • Finnish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Jalil, Jãlîl, Jälîl, Jålîl

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jalîl under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jalîl mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
Is Jalîl a male or female name?
Jalîl is a male 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 Jalîl have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Jalîl, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Jalîl most common?
Jalîl is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jalîl?
In Argentina, the national register counted 2,522 people named Jalîl, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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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, “Jalîl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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