girls:
1.3k births since 1969
#4433 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1969
#6452 (17th percentile)
The name Jameelah is the #6,452 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,290 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 16.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,433 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,290 births since 1969.
Jameelah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Jameelah is available in 51 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Jameelah reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #679) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jameelah ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 8.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jameelah".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jameelah is pronounced as juh-MEE-luh, which has 3 syllables.
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