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Jalal

#4,926 in 2025Boys' name

Greatness

Jalal has been given to 755 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,926 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Jalal, 2025

1 in 166,000

Jalal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jalal: meaning, origin, and history

Greatness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jalal means

Jalal means “greatness”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 755 boys were recorded with the name Jalal between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,879 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,326 in 2020 to #4,926 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,085 in 2015 to #4,926 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jalal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,926
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jalal 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jalal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jalals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jalal was born before 2002 — so the typical Jalal is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Jalal 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
+386
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−600
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,159
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 2003 (23)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,879
1985

Spellings of Jalal

Jalal is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 65.1% against Jalal's 0.14%.

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 Jalal is used

Across 1910–2025, Jalal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,618,765 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Jalal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jalal around the world

Where Jalal 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #3,429
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Jalal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,926
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 600
Best rank ever
#2,879
1985
Peak year
2003
23 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
755
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Jalal

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

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Sibling names for Jalal

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

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