Jamal

Boy name

Jamal has been given to 33,501 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It peaked in 1993.

Meaning & origin

From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).

Origin: Arabic

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025

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Total babies

33,501

Peak year

1993 (1,253 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1946

10-year trend

▼ -49%

Gender split

1% girls / 99% boys

Famous people named Jamal

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi journalist (1958–2018)

Jamal Musiala

German footballer (born 2003)

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

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