Entry № 3522 · Arabic origin

Gamila Gamila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ gah-MEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Beautiful (Arabic / Egyptian)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "beautiful (arabic / egyptian)".

Gamila is from the Arabic Gamīla.

Beautiful (Arabic / Egyptian) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

جميلة
Transliteration
Gamīla
Pronunciation
/ ɡəˈmiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gamila stands.

Gamila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gamilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Gamila Bouhired
Algerian FLN National Liberation Front heroine 1935-2025 + Algerian Independence War 1954-1962 + Frantz Fanon Wretched of the Earth 1961
Algerian history

Names connected to Gamila.

The number behind Gamila.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gamila reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.