Jalila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- jah-LEE-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Jalila is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “great, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Jalila mean?
Arabic: spelling of Jalilah; feminine of Jalil
“great, exalted”
Feminine of Jalil; al-Jalil, 'the Majestic', is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Jalilah.
Is Jalila a girl's or a boy's name?
Jalila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jalila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Jalila, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.
Half of all the girls named Jalila in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jalila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,407 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
Names like Jalila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Samira, Zahara, Aaliyah, Khadija, Safiya, Aliya, Halima, Salma, Amina, Hafsa
Names related to Jalila
Jaliyah, Jalia, Jaila, Jaliah, Jaleia, Jalilah, Jaliya, Jalea
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Jalila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jalila, updated 20 October 2026.