Jahmal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jahmal has been given to 1,211 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1993, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Jahmal, 2024
1 in 557,000
Jahmal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jahmal?
Jahmal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jahmal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahmal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jahmals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahmal was born before 1993 — so the typical Jahmal is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 27.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,211
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (327).
Is Jahmal 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (41)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jahmal
Jahmal is not the most common spelling — Jamal is, with 27.7% against Jahmal's 1.0%.
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 Jahmal is used
Across 1910–2025, Jahmal was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 221,427 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Louisiana1 in —
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. Jahmal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jahmal around the world
Where Jahmal 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 & Wales1996–2022#4,790in 2022
- France2011–2025#6,119in 2025
- Canada1993–1995#1,910in 1995
- South Australia2002–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jahmal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jahmal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jahmal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.