Fun Facts About the Name Khamila
- 279 babies named Khamila: U.S. records list 279 babies given the name Khamila from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Khamila Mean?
Khamila is a feminine given name most often explained as a variant spelling of the Arabic name Kamila (كَامِلَة), which means "perfect" or "complete." It comes from the Arabic root k-m-l, a root concerned with completeness, wholeness, and maturity. The masculine form is Kamil (كَامِل), "perfect" or "complete"; Kamila adds the feminine ending -a. In this derivation, "complete" is the literal sense, while "perfect" is the usual English rendering of the same idea.
The initial kh in Khamila is not part of the Arabic spelling of Kamila. It may reflect a transliteration practice in a language that writes a plain k sound as kh, or it may point to a different Arabic word, khamīla (خَمِيلَة), meaning a fertile meadow, grove, or place where water collects. The "perfect, complete" meaning is the one most often attached to the given name, but the derivation of the kh remains uncertain.
Khamila Name History & Origins
The parent name Kamila belongs to the Arabic naming tradition built on the root k-m-l. Kamil and its feminine form Kamila were used in Arabic-speaking communities and spread with Islam into Persian-, Turkish-, Urdu-, Malay-, and Swahili-speaking regions. In those languages the name commonly appears as Kamila, Kamilah, or Kameela. The form Khamila belongs to this same broad family of spellings, but its own path is less clearly documented than the parent name's.
In Arabic script, the usual spelling of the "perfect, complete" name is كَامِلَة, written with kāf and no kh. A spelling with kh corresponds instead to the Arabic letter khāʾ, as in khamīla. That word is primarily a landscape noun, "meadow" or "grove," rather than a traditional personal name. Because Khamila is written in Latin letters in modern use, it can represent either an adapted transliteration of Kamila or a name taken from the separate Arabic noun; the available history does not show which route any particular modern use followed.
How Popular is the Name Khamila?
Khamila has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2020. Its best rank was #4,494 in 2020.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,562 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #7,399 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2023 | #5,479 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2022 | #6,581 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2021 | #5,661 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2020 | #4,494 | 30 | 0.0019% |
| 2019 | #4,717 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2018 | #7,969 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #6,684 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #6,551 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2015 | #8,702 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2014 | #7,882 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #8,365 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2012 | #10,859 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #14,090 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #12,898 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #10,337 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #16,492 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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