Yamile
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yah-MEE-leh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Yamile is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Yamile mean?
Arabic: Latin American spelling of Jamila, from Arabic jamil
“beautiful”
Latin American spelling of Jamila, from Arabic jamil, 'beautiful', brought by Arab migrants to Latin America.
Is Yamile a girl's or a boy's name?
Yamile is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yamile in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Yamile, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 204 girls. It first appears in the records in 1963.
Half of all the girls named Yamile in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yamile in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,161 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,888 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,999 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,016 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,787 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,053 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,432 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,261 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,996 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,602 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,071 |
| 2000 | 204 | #1,027 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,213 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,766 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,477 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,272 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,783 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,888 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,147 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,526 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,531 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,244 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,188 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,384 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,890 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,609 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,159 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,664 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,957 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,014 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,624 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,295 |
Names like Yamile
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Amira, Aliya, Samira, Zainab, Amina, Safiya, Summer, Salma, Khadija, Yasmine, Hadassah
Names related to Yamile
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, “Yamile: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yamile, updated 20 October 2026.