Entry № 4795 · Arabic origin

Jamila Jamila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ juh-MEE-luh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Beautiful (Swahili heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "beautiful (swahili heritage)".

Jamila is from the Arabic jamīlah (beautiful) — also used widely in Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. LEGACY!

Beautiful (Swahili heritage) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

جميلة
Transliteration
Jamīlah
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈmiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jamila stands.

Jamila 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.

Jamilas before her.

Real people
Jamila Bouhired
Algerian revolutionary.
born 1935
Jamila Woods
American singer-songwriter.
born 1989
Jamila Wignot
American Sundance documentarian.
modern
In fiction
Jamila
Arabic for beautiful.

Names connected to Jamila.

The number behind Jamila.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jamila reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.