Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yamile isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yamile through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,328
- 0 boys · 1,328 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 204 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,170 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,170 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 204 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,618 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.
Yamile’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Yamile has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jamila.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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