Gamal
#7,336 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gamal has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #7,336 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Gamal, 2025
1 in 301,000
Gamal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gamal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,336
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gamal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gamal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gamals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gamal was born before 1984 — so the typical Gamal is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 22.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 502
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (114).
Is Gamal 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
- +1,655
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,676
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.1%
- Peak was 1976 (18)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Gamal
Gamal is not the most common spelling — Gael is, with 23.4% against Gamal's 0.24%.
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.
Where Gamal is used
Across 1910–2025, Gamal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 144,824 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gamal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gamal around the world
Where Gamal 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 & Wales1997–2024#5,120in 2024
- France1955–2020#7,014in 2020
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.
Gamal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gamal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gamal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.