Given name
Yamil
“handsome”
Yamil is a given name from Arabic. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yamil goes back to Arabic جَمِيل, meaning “handsome.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yamil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,601
- 1,524 boys · 77 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 103 babies
- 2025
- 23
- #4,532 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 23 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,532 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 32.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 103 in 2008. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,685 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yamil’s family of names
Yamil may belong to the same name family as YAMMIL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yamil
- Yamil AsadArgentine association football playerborn 1994
- Yamil PeraltaArgentine boxerborn 1991
- Yamil RomeroArgentinian association football playerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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