Jamila

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jamila: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jamila: Recorded since 1961, its highest recorded position is #322, and it stood at #1,230 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
64years from first to last
#322highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#736
1997	#736
1998	#737
1999	#752
2000	#833
2001	#816
2002	#861
2003	#818
2004	#788
2005	#890
2006	#976
2007	#1050
2008	#1302
2009	#1139
2010	#1180
2011	#1295
2012	#1483
2013	#1177
2014	#1882
2015	#1711
2016	#1172
2017	#1733
2018	#1013
2019	#1119
2020	#1044
2021	#1102
2022	#1501
2023	#1371
2024	#1230

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 27 of the 51 years from 1961 to 2011.

In 2011: #586 among girls in Norway, #1295 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1961–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1961
First recorded at #322 among girls in Norway in 1961 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1961–2011
Highest recorded position: #322 among girls in Norway, in 1961 (recorded 1961–2011).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1230 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jamila appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 788 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1961.

Jamila across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jamila's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#322 (1961)	#322 (1961)	#586 (2011)	27 of 51	169 (1961–2011)	11 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#736 (1996)	#736 (1996)	#1230 (2024)	29 of 29	788 (1996–2024)	35 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#910 (2010)	3 of 7	9 (2004–2010)	3 (2004)

Jamila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jamila in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	124	4 of 10	31
2000sbusiest	287	10 of 10	29
2010s	244	10 of 10	24
2020s	133	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jamila appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1961 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #322 in Norway in 1961.

Jamila's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1230	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1371	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1102	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1044	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1483	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1180	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1050	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#976	29	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#788	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#816	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#833	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#752	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#736	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#586	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#397	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#442	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#655	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#651	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#657	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#525	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#482	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#500	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#490	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#386	10	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#562	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#348	11	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#558	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#433	8	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#552	5	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#590	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#524	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#489	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#409	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#325	10	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#520	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#455	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#322	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1961 and 2024, ranked in 51 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #322, first reached in 1961.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 43 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jamieleigh · #1594, 13y
Jamil · #555, 29y
Jamilah · #1245, 25y
Jan · #1, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mahdi · #324, 48y
Valeria · #313, 46y
Larisa · #309, 48y
Mahad · #338, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Justina · #322, 28y
Alette · #323, 37y
Bairbre · #321, 19y
Omer · #323, 42y

Jamila was ranked #322 in Norway · Girls in 1961. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jamila and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jamila without appearing here.

Jamila moved ahead of

Susan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1733 and #1512 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1013 and #3518.
Aisling Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1733 and #1681 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1013 and #2340.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1501 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1371 and #2689.
Stacey Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1733 and #1457 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1013 and #1977.

Moved ahead of Jamila

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #976 and #456.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1882 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1711 and #1240.
Sophie Compare
In 1989 they stood at #525 and #542 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #657 and #229.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1139 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1180 and #773.

Moved the opposite way to Jamila

Alexandra Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 while Alexandra went from #332 to #94.
Andrea Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 while Andrea went from #333 to #40.
Anna Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 while Anna went from #78 to #9.
Camilla Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 while Camilla went from #315 to #130.

Moved the same way as Jamila

Anette Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 and Anette from #133 to #437.
Annie Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 and Annie from #230 to #358.
Åse Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 and Åse from #40 to #371.
Astrid Compare
Between 1961 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Jamila went from #322 to #586 and Astrid from #32 to #62.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1961 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #322 in Norway in 1961. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jamila

Jamila at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jamila across 3 official records

Jamila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jamila appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Jamila at a glance

Jamila across 3 official records

Jamila by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jamila appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Jamila

Jamila and the names beside it

Jamila moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jamila

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