girls:
1k births since 1969
#4668 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1969
#6691 (14th percentile)
The name Jamillah is the #6,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,048 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,668 (18.3% percentile) for all time with 1,048 births since 1969.
Jamillah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Jamillah 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, Jamillah reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #698) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 38 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jamillah ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamillah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jamillah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.1% confident that Jamillah is pronounced as juh-MIH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-MEE-luh, at 21.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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