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Jamilah name meaning

“beautiful”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
J
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1960s: 7.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s7.9%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
5

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Jamilah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: JMeaning beautyArabic origin

Jamilah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'beautiful'.

What does Jamilah mean?

Beautiful

In Malay: cantik

#Beauty

Sources (2)

About the name Jamilah

Jamilah comes from Arabic jamīlah, the feminine form of jamīl, meaning 'beautiful'. Other common spellings are Jamila, Jameela and Jamelah. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 5,242 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootج م ل · j-m-l
SyllablesJa-mi-lah
First letterMalay Names starting with J
Arabic scriptجميلة

Jamilah in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 5,242 · 7.9%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Jamilah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Jamilah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: جميلة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: جميل · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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