Cemal

Boys' name

Beauty

Cemal has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Cemal, 1978

1 in 453,000

Cemal over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cemal: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Arabic

What Cemal means

Cemal means “beauty”, associated with jamāl.

Origin, language, and formation

Cemal is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Cemal comes through Arabic جَمَال.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Cemal between 1978 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1978; its best national rank was #4,621 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cemal?

Cemal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978: 1 in 453,000; 7 of 3,173,639 births
Among boys only: 1 in 235,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1978: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 314,258 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cemal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 314,258 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cemal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cemals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cemal was born before 1978 — so the typical Cemal is around 47 today.

Median birth year: 1978; About 47 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 7; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Cemal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1978 (7)
Years since peak: 47; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,621; 1978

Spellings of Cemal

Cemal is not the most common spelling — Cecil is, with 31.7% against Cemal's <0.01%.

Cecil31.7%106,989
Cesar23.3%78,824
Neal16.3%55,048
Jamal9.8%33,235
Emil9.8%33,096
Cal2.3%7,858
Semaj2.2%7,421
Kamal0.91%3,076

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cemal around the world

Where Cemal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1997–2019
#3,937
in 2019
France
1976–2025
#5,158
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Cemal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,621; 1978
Peak year: 1978; 7 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 1978
All-time count: 7
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cemal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Yamal Bimal Aimal Damal Romal Jimal Tamal Jomal Kahmal Tramal Jaimal Tremal Premal Ormal Akmal Hemal Jumal Ajmal Khamal Nirmal Gurkamal Vimal Kemal Jhamal

Sibling names for Cemal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shanta Imelda Lakesha Aja Jason Bambi Kevin Shanika

For a brother

Delvin Torrey Jed Kristofer Tory Aric Rodrick Leopoldo

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