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Djibril

Gender
Boy
Origin
Arabic
US rank, 2025
#6,442 for boys

Djibril is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).

What does Djibril mean?

Arabic

A male given name from Arabic.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Djibril a girl's or a boy's name?

Djibril is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Djibril in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 5 boys.

2005Busiest: 5 in 20062022
Djibril in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20223#5,017
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20173#4,995
20164#4,214
20150–
20144#4,063
20130–
20123#4,999
20110–
20103#4,865
20094#3,909
20080–
20074#3,748
20065#3,013
20053#3,992

How popular is Djibril in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,442among boys
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 130,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Djibril, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.

It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more boys named Djibril than any year since 2017.

Half of all the boys named Djibril in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 16 in 20132025
Djibril in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202513#6,442
202411#7,252
20238#8,916
20227#9,815
20219#8,161
202012#6,616
201911#7,168
20188#8,813
201714#6,056
201616#5,551
20156#10,638
201413#6,303
201316#5,400
201210#7,553
201115#5,670
201011#7,081
200912#6,798
20089#8,319
200714#5,898
200611#6,899
200513#5,869
200411#6,514
200310#6,708
20020–
20016#9,236
200010#6,309
19995#9,905
19985#9,623
19979#6,094
19966#7,964
19950–
19945#8,794

Names like Djibril

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Arabic names

Every Arabic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Djibril: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/djibril, updated 20 October 2026.