Yamila
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ya-MEE-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,264 for girls
Yamila is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 4,264th for girls in the US (33 babies).
What does Yamila mean?
Arabic: Spanish spelling of Jamila
“beautiful”
From Arabic jamil 'beautiful'; the Y spelling is common in Argentina and other Spanish-speaking countries.
Is Yamila a girl's or a boy's name?
Yamila is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yamila in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,264among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33about 1 in 49,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the US were named Yamila, making it the 4,264th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 133 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
2025 had fewer girls named Yamila than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Yamila in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yamila in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,264 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,516 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,831 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,170 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,434 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,787 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,774 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,625 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,426 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,451 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,043 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,012 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,212 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,583 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,168 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,651 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,806 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,969 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,861 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,467 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
Nicknames for Yamila
- Yami 8 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Yamila
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Amira Aaliyah Zahara Samira Safiya Salma Hafsa Aliya Khadija Zamira Zainab
Names related to Yamila
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, “Yamila: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yamila, updated 20 October 2026.