Jameelah

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births

Peak · girls
1978 · 82 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,312
since 1969

Jameelah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jameelah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #1,412, 1978girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#8,44312
2023#12,1977
2022#7,28115
2021#6,69117
2020#5,66721
2019#5,04126
2018#4,56230
2017#6,53118
2016#7,98814
2015#8,00814
2014#6,45119
2013#7,74815
2012#7,14417
2011#6,56419
2010#5,77123
2009#6,09122
2008#6,55920
2007#6,81219
2006#7,48216
2005#9,45211
2004#8,25913
2003#5,79520
2002#5,67320
2001#6,06718
2000#5,49120
1999#4,31326
1998#4,63623
1997#5,01020
1996#4,45323
1995#4,21724
1994#4,23824
1993#4,10025
1992#3,34333
1991#3,20734
1990#4,38022
1989#4,35821
1988#4,01522
1987#4,66017
1986#2,97331
1985#3,41925
1984#2,85131
1983#2,72132
1982#2,32742
1981#1,91256
1980#1,98153
1979#1,77061
1978#1,41282
1977#1,53870
1976#2,09941
1975#7,9846
1974#6,9007
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Jameelah! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jameelah is popular in 1969

No state had 5 or more girls named Jameelah in 1969, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jameelah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,014 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #9,457)
  • 3,790 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #9,457)
  • 1,449 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1978 at #1,412 (82 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 18,681
  • Highest: 1 in 18,681 girls born in 1978 were named Jameelah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 25.2% of all girls named Jameelah (330) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,471 (1969)#7,471
1970s267#1,412 (1978)#3,617
1980s330#1,912 (1981)#3,122
1990s254#3,207 (1991)#4,190
2000s179#5,491 (2000)#6,768
2010s195#4,562 (2018)#6,581
2020s82#5,667 (2020)#8,289

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jameelah in 1969

girls
#7,471
5 births · 1 in 337,403 girls

Top girls' names in 1969

  1. #1Lisa45,028
  2. #2Michelle34,319
  3. #3Jennifer33,705
  4. #4Kimberly33,077
  5. #5Melissa23,018
  6. #6Amy21,464
  7. #7Angela21,060
  8. #8Mary19,850
  9. #9Tammy19,053
  10. #10Laura17,922
  11. #7,471Jameelah5
More about 1969

girls

1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 337,403 of them was named Jameelah, which outranked 14.2% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jameelah
  1. #6,617Yevonne6
  2. #6,617Yoshiko6
  3. #6,617Zonya6
  4. #7,471Jameelah5
  5. #7,471Adana5
  6. #7,471Adine5
  7. #7,471Adreana5

Tied with 1,237 names at #7,471; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,462Shani#2,126 → #664
  2. ↑ 1,203Julissa#2,164 → #961
  3. ↑ 1,133Chelsea#1,834 → #701
  4. ↑ 667Latasha#1,519 → #852
  5. ↑ 549Britt#1,519 → #970
Fallers
  1. ↓ 455Tamiko#552 → #1,007
  2. ↓ 345Alesia#697 → #1,042
  3. ↓ 324Vickey#966 → #1,290
  4. ↓ 308Bettina#746 → #1,054
  5. ↓ 293Cammie#846 → #1,139

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969 →