Jaleel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greatness
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒələɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jaleel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2M(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.8Kas Jalil
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.9Kas Jalil
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 Jaleel 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 named Jalil, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jalil in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh and 2 more.
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)
Greatness.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaleel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #188 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Jalil | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | #368 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Jaleel | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jalil | 99 |
| MY Malaysia | #113 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Jalil | 82 |
| IQ Iraq | #457 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Jalil | 39 |
| MA Morocco | #447 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jalil | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #756 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Jaleel | 62 |
| IN India | — | 661 | 1 in 2M | 661 | Jaleel | 92 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jaleel Khanb. 1954INIndian politician
- Jaleel Whiteb. 1976USAmerican actor (born 1976)
- Jaleel Shawb. 1978USAmerican musician
- Jaleel Robertsb. 1992USAmerican basketball player
- Jaleel Cousinsb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (1993-)
- Jaleel Johnsonb. 1994USAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Jaleel Scottb. 1995USAmerican football player
- Isaiah Millerb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Jaleel Khan BabarPKpolitician in Pakistan
- Jaleel A. MiyanGBresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11K | #79 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 661 | #7,464 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Jaleel mean, and where does it come from?
- Greatness. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Jaleel?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒələɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Jaleel a male or female name?
- Jaleel 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 Jaleel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Jalil in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jaleel?
- In India, the national register counted 661 people named Jaleel, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Jaleel compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Jaleel is the 188th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jaleel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaleelThe 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, “Jaleel” — the 188th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.