Jamelia
A girls’ name of Arabic origin, meaning beautiful; a form of jamal.
Jamelia by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Jamelia. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 40 babies in 1987, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jamelia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean beauty
Like Jamelia, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jamelia
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