girls:
69 births since 1983
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1961
#3169 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1961
#6195 (20th percentile)
The name Yamil is the #6,195 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,551 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 19.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,169 (30.9% percentile) for all time with 1,482 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1983.
Yamil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Yamil is available in 50 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 12 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 Yamil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yamil reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #809) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 47 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Yamil ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 18.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yamil reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yamil".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Yamil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Yamil is pronounced as yuh-MEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yah-MEEL, at 29.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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