Jalila
AK Comics is an Egyptian-based superhero comic publishing company, and the first large scale production of the genre in the Middle East. The company was founded by Ayman Kandeel. Dærick Gröss Sr. is the editor-in-chief; Waleed Al-Telbany is the art director; Mohie El-Dein Sideiq is the Arabic-language editor and Sara Kareem is the English-language editor of the company.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Jalila
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
AK Comics is an Egyptian-based superhero comic publishing company, and the first large scale production of the genre in the Middle East. The company was founded by Ayman Kandeel. Dærick Gröss Sr. is the editor-in-chief; Waleed Al-Telbany is the art director; Mohie El-Dein Sideiq is the Arabic-language editor and Sara Kareem is the English-language editor of the company.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Jalila
The earliest SSA record of Jalila as a baby girl name dates back to 1972, when 5 babies received it. 2001 was its biggest year on record, with 13 newborns named Jalila — #7,723 in the national rankings. About 28% of every Jalila on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Jalila last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 10 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 222 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Jalila
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Jalila. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Galila
Names that sound like Jalila
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About the name Jalila
Jalila is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 222 births in the dataset. Jalila's peak popularity came in 2001 when it ranked #7,723. Use the chart and map above to compare Jalila's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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