Jamyla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- jah-MEE-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Jamyla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Jamyla mean?
Arabic: respelling of Jamila
“beautiful”
A respelling of Jamila, the feminine of the Arabic Jamil, 'beautiful'.
Is Jamyla a girl's or a boy's name?
Jamyla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jamyla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,877th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Jamyla, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the girls named Jamyla in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jamyla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,005 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,852 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,768 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,456 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,541 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,599 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,602 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,869 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,824 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,087 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
Names like Jamyla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Zahara, Aaliyah, Samira, Salma, Hafsa, Aliya, Khadija, Safiya, Zamira, Jaliyah
Names related to Jamyla
Jamila, Jamilah, Jameela, Jamylah, Jamelia, Jameelah, Jamilla, Jamela
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, “Jamyla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jamyla, updated 20 October 2026.