girls:
382 births since 1948
#5334 (7th percentile)
boys:
803 births since 1972
#3784 (17th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1948
#6555 (15th percentile)
The name Jamelle is the #6,555 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,185 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 15.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,784 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 803 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,334 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 382 births since 1948.
Jamelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Jamelle is available in 64 out of the 74 years between 1948 and 2021 (48 years for boys and 39 years for girls). 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.
The name Jamelle has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (67.8% of all recorded births). In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Jamelle were boys. Interestingly, until around 1982, the name was more popular for girls (73.1% girls from 1948 to 1981), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (84.8% boys from 1982 to 2021).
For boys, Jamelle reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #638) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 46 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Jamelle reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #738) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamelle".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Jamel. View all variations of Jamel.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jamelle", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 9 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jamel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jamel..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jamelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jamelle is pronounced as juh-MEHL, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Jamelle? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jamelle. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jamelle, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 M EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker