Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Jamila Name Meaning in Islam
Beautiful (feminine of Jamīl).
- Meaning
- Beautiful (feminine of Jamīl)
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- جمیلہ
- Pronunciation
- ja-MI-la
- Lucky number
- 7
Is Jamila an Islamic name? Yes. Jamila is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Beautiful (feminine of Jamīl). Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
j-m-l. From j-m-l, beauty and gracefulness; jamila is the feminine of jamil, the beautiful one.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Jeem opens beauty itself, Meem mothers her with love, Ya carries her yearning, Lam joins her to the Beloved, and the final ta of completion crowns her loveliness as gift. The letters describe a beauty that is both seen and given.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Jamila's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Al-Jami, the Gatherer, carried by a person as the ability to gather people around what matters. A person named Jamila carries a full weather system inside a single quiet chest.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Beautiful, handsome, from root j-m-l (jamala, to be beautiful). Al-Jamal (beauty) is one of the divine qualities, 'Allah is beautiful and loves beauty' (Muslim). Jamila names the girl of natural, complete beauty, not one feature but the whole. Top Arab world girls name across North Africa, Levant, Gulf.
Jamila Bouhired. Algerian resistance fighter and symbol of liberation. The name is carried by beauty that fights.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Jamila Bouhiredb. 1935·AlgeriaAlgerian independence fighter and national heroine
How to Pronounce Jamila
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Variants of this name
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Names sharing the ج Jeem influence
Like Jamila, these names carry Jeem (ج) as their leading letter influence.
Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Jamila
What does the name Jamila mean?
The letters of Jamila, beginning with Jeem, each carry a separate quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof read here? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Jamila? →
Is Jamila mentioned in the Quran?
Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Jamila included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Jamila mean in Urdu?
Urdu kept the Arabic letter meanings alive through poetry and scholarship, they still sit under Jamila. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Jamila a good Islamic name?
The letters of Jamila, each with its own reading, are laid out above ↑ jump to the letters reading ↑
Is Jamila a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Jamila in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is Ilm ul Huroof, the classical Islamic science of letters in the line of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Every Arabic letter under Jamila is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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