Jamylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- jah-MEE-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Jamylah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Jamylah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Jamyla; respelling of Jamila
“beautiful”
A respelling of Jamila, the feminine of the Arabic Jamil, 'beautiful'.
Meaning borrowed from Jamyla.
Is Jamylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Jamylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jamylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Jamylah, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Jamylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jamylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Jamylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Hadassah, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Jaliyah, Sariyah, Safa, Naziyah, Samiyah, Zahara, Jaziyah
Names related to Jamylah
Jamila, Jamilah, Jamyla, Jameela, Jamelia, Jameelah, Jamilla, Jamela
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Jamylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jamylah, updated 20 October 2026.