Jamila
Fewer than 100 Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one. Hebrew at root, meaning lovely, and given only to girls.
Jamila Pronunciation
Jamila is pronounced yah-MEE-lah (/jaˈmila/).
What Jamila means
Where Jamila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jamila reaches Poland as a visitor, and its meaning is simple to state: beautiful. The etymology runs back to Hebrew, while the name has lived most fully in Arabic-speaking families, where it marks a girl as lovely. Those two threads, one of origin and one of cultural home, sit inside the same three syllables. The Polish sense is `piękna`.
She has no Polish diminutive of her own. No `Jamilka` was ever fixed by custom, no cross-gender pair, so the name stays whole on every line where it is written.
Picture a class register in a Warsaw school. Among the columns of Zuzanna and Julia, one `Jamila` holds her full form, with no shortened version penciled beside it. That wholeness is part of the story. Where a Polish name softens into nicknames, this one keeps its shape at the `urząd` and on the school list alike. What the name states, across Hebrew root and Arabic use, is a single word: beautiful.
How many people are named Jamila
1 in 247734 women in Poland is named Jamila. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3667 among female names.
Jamila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jamila as a middle name
Jamila is a first name for 91 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1721st, between Jackie (18) and Jolie (18).
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#1719 Irène18
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#1720 Jackie18
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#1721 Jamila18
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#1722 Jolie18
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#1723 Kariona18