Djamila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic Jamīla, feminine of Jamāl ‘beautiful’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Djamila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.3K
- AOAngola≈1 in 8.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic Jamīla, feminine of Jamāl ‘beautiful’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Djamila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #427 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2 | Djamila | 25 |
| FR France | #825 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 7K | Djamila | 248 |
| AO Angola | #288 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Djamila | 19 |
| CM Cameroon | #631 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Djamila | 7 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Djamila | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 285 | 1 in 175K | 285 | Djamila | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); The paper discusses the significance of first names in reflecting Algerian identity and their presence in French school; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Djamila is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Nom d’origine arabe lié à la beauté; évoque un passage, la naissance et la reconnaissance, avec une référence symbolique au baptême en « langue des oiseaux ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, De l’arabe jamīla « belle »; prénom musulman.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Djamila Debècheb. 1926DZFrench-Algerian writer
- Djamila Bouhiredb. 1935DZAlgerian political terrorist
- Djamila Boupachab. 1938DZpolitical activist and victim of torture by the French colonial army
- Djamila Bouazzab. 1938DZAlgerian independence activist
- Jamīlah Zunayrb. 1949DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian short story writer
- Djamila Sahraouib. 1950DZAlgerian film director
- Djamila Boushakib. 1968DZveterinarian
- Djamila Ribeirob. 1980BRBrazilian philosophist and feminist
- Djamila Landbrugb. 1988actress
- Djamilab. 1991NLDutch YouTuber
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7K | #779 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 285 | #6,860 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 238 | #3,576 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Djamila mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic Jamīla, feminine of Jamāl ‘beautiful’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Djamila a male or female name?
- Djamila 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.
- What are other forms of the name Djamila?
- In the etymology graph, Cemile, Jamila and Yamila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Djamila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Djamila in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled djamila.
- How common is the name Djamila?
- In Spain, the national register counted 285 people named Djamila, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Djamila compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Djamila is the 427th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/djamilaThe 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, “Djamila” — the 427th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.