Yamila
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024
/jamila/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Yamila 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.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 890(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 925
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.3K
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 Yamila 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 890 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 named Jamila, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jamila in IN India, NG Nigeria, MA Morocco and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yamila 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 |
| UY Uruguay | #110 | 3,664 | 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yamila Diaz-Rahib. 1976ARArgentine model
- Yamila Nizetichb. 1989ARArgentinian volleyball player
- Adriana Díazb. 2000USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican Olympic athlete
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Yamila?
- In the etymology graph, Cemile, Jamila and Yamileth are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Yamila?
- In Spanish /jamila/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Yamila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 thousand people named Jamila in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, Tanzania, Afghanistan and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Yamila a male or female name?
- Yamila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Uruguay (INE Uruguay), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Venezuela (asosab), among others.
- How common is the name Yamila?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 3,664 people named Yamila, about 1 in 925 residents.
- How common is Yamila compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Yamila 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/yamilaThe 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, “Yamila” — the 67th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.