Jamela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ja-MEL-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Jamela is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Jamela mean?
Arabic: spelling of Jamila
“beautiful”
Feminine of Jamil, from the Arabic root j-m-l, 'beauty'.
Is Jamela a girl's or a boy's name?
Jamela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jamela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Jamela, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1986, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.
Half of all the girls named Jamela in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2002, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jamela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,418 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,235 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,006 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,734 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,371 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,346 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,674 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,811 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,431 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,324 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,160 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,854 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,723 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,453 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,526 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,554 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,526 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,738 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,326 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,776 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,512 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,001 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,961 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,139 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,458 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,869 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,792 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,386 |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,972 |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,803 |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,766 |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,376 |
Names like Jamela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Samira, Amira, Khadija, Aaliyah, Aliya, Jamila, Aisha, Safiya, Amina, Safa, Salma, Halima
Names related to Jamela
Jamilah, Jamyla, Jameela, Jamylah, Jamelia, Jameelah, Jamilla
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Liyana
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, “Jamela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jamela, updated 20 October 2026.