Fun Facts About the Name Yamila
- More than 1 thousand babies named Yamila: U.S. records list 1,216 babies given the name Yamila from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yamila Mean?
Yamila is a feminine given name used chiefly in Spanish-speaking countries. It is generally understood as a Spanish-language form of the Arabic name Jamila (جميلة, jamīla), which means "beautiful" or "lovely." The Arabic word is the feminine adjective from the root j-m-l, which carries the basic sense of beauty and good looks; the same root gives the masculine Jamīl.
Because the name is written according to Spanish sound values, the Arabic consonant rendered as j in English and French appears in Spanish as y or sometimes g. The same Arabic name therefore yields Jamila, Djamila, Gamila, and Yamila. The literal meaning does not change across these spellings: "beautiful."
Yamila Name History & Origins
The name goes back to the Arabic adjective jamīla, the feminine of jamīl ("beautiful"). The root j-m-l belongs to classical Arabic and forms words for beauty and handsome appearance, so the name's meaning is not a later symbolic reading but the ordinary sense of the word it comes from.
Yamila, with an initial y, is the form that took hold in Spanish. Spanish speakers have long adapted Arabic names to Spanish spelling, and the Arabic letter jīm - pronounced in many dialects with a sound close to the s in English "measure" - corresponds closely to the sound that Spanish speakers give to the letter y in Argentina, Uruguay, and nearby regions. That correspondence helps explain why the name appears there as Yamila rather than Jamila or Gamila. Arabic-speaking communities in Latin America, including in Argentina and Cuba, form part of the setting in which such spellings circulated.
Related Spanish forms include the feminine Yamile or Yamilé and the masculine Yamil, the Spanish rendering of Jamīl. These are separate adaptations of the same Arabic root rather than sources of Yamila.
How Popular is the Name Yamila?
Yamila 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 2017. Its best rank was #1,635 in 2017.
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 | #4,348 | 33 | 0.0021% |
| 2024 | #3,563 | 44 | 0.0027% |
| 2023 | #3,904 | 39 | 0.0024% |
| 2022 | #3,213 | 51 | 0.0031% |
| 2021 | #3,488 | 45 | 0.0027% |
| 2020 | #4,254 | 33 | 0.0020% |
| 2019 | #3,843 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #1,786 | 115 | 0.0068% |
| 2017 | #1,635 | 133 | 0.0077% |
| 2016 | #2,445 | 76 | 0.0043% |
| 2015 | #8,421 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #6,434 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2013 | #5,477 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2012 | #6,858 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #3,491 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2010 | #3,073 | 55 | 0.0031% |
| 2009 | #4,102 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2008 | #6,122 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2007 | #4,293 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2006 | #4,569 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2005 | #3,642 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2004 | #4,278 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2003 | #3,728 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2002 | #3,883 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2001 | #7,310 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2000 | #5,694 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #11,354 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #9,007 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #13,481 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #13,394 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #11,760 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #8,725 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1991 | #7,418 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #7,290 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1989 | #14,514 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #12,802 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #8,141 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #12,036 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #8,209 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1981 | #10,392 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #11,440 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1975 | #9,054 | 6 | 0.0004% |
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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