Yamila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jamila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yamila 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.
- UYUruguay1 in 925(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 936
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 984as Jamila
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- 1 in 925 (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 named Jamila, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jamila in NG Nigeria, MA Morocco, TZ Tanzania 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
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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); 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 Cafruneb. 1965ARArgentine singer
- Yamila Idrissib. 1968BEFlemish politician
- Yamila Diaz-Rahib. 1976ARArgentine model
- Yamila Reynab. 1978ARArgentinian actor
- Yamila Osoriob. 1986PEPeruvian lawyer
- Yamila Nizetichb. 1989ARArgentinian volleyball player
- Yamila Badellb. 1996UYassociation football player
- Yamila Rodríguezb. 1998ARArgentine association football player
- Adriana Díazb. 2000USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican Olympic athlete
- Yamila P. CardosoARArgentine researcher
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.7K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.4K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 873 | #322 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 670 | #379 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 596 | #411 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2015 | 433 | #484 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1995 | 341 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1995 | 341 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 330 | #552 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 273 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1992 | 268 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1992 | 268 | — |
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
- In which country does Yamila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Jamila in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yamila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yamila is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 925 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Yamila?
- A machine transcription gives /jamila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Yamila a male or female name?
- Yamila 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 Yamila?
- In the etymology graph, Cemile, Jamila and Yamileth are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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 Nigeria, Yamila is the 448th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yamila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
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 448th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.