Jahlil
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ja-LEEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #2,572 for boys
Jahlil is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “great, majestic”. In 2025 it ranked 2,572nd for boys in the US (51 babies).
What does Jahlil mean?
Arabic: spelling of Jalil
“great, majestic”
Al-Jalil, 'the Majestic', is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.
Is Jahlil a girl's or a boy's name?
Jahlil is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 51 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jahlil in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,572nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 51 about 1 in 33,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 51 boys in the US were named Jahlil, making it the 2,572nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,673rd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 112 boys. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the boys named Jahlil in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 184 boys in the US were given Jahlil or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,045, up from #2,572 for this spelling alone.
Jahlil in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,572 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,750 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,187 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,190 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,059 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,673 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,723 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,648 |
| 2017 | 98 | #1,623 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,515 |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,514 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,978 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,762 |
| 2012 | 79 | #1,848 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,946 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,833 |
| 2009 | 76 | #1,888 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,874 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,337 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,284 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,004 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,650 |
| 2003 | 67 | #1,778 |
| 2002 | 73 | #1,633 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,706 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,605 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,652 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,677 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,596 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,781 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,950 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,922 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,633 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,407 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,909 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,160 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,319 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,910 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,437 |
Names like Jahlil
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Zahir, Khalil, Muhammad, Amir, Zayd, Ahmad, Jamir, Nasir, Abdullah, Musa, Samir
Other spellings of Jahlil
Names related to Jahlil
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from 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, “Jahlil: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jahlil, updated 20 October 2026.