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Jamaal

#4,077 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Jamal

Jamaal has been given to 8,587 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #4,077 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 715 recorded.

Babies named Jamaal, 2025

1 in 128,000

Jamaal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jamaal: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jamal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jamaal means

Jamaal is a alternate transcription of Jamal.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jamaal → Jamal. The family’s meaning is “beauty”, recorded in English with the source elements jamāl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,542 boys were recorded with the name Jamaal between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 715 in 1982; its best national rank was #286 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,233 in 2020 to #4,077 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,122 in 2015 to #4,077 in 2025.

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Jamaal between 1976 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1982; its best national rank was #6,925 in 1983.

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 Jamaal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,077
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jamaal 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jamaal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jamaals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jamaal was born before 1987 — so the typical Jamaal is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,542
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (3,890).

Is Jamaal 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
−660
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−844
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,955
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1982 (715)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#286
1982

Spellings of Jamaal

Jamaal is not the most common spelling — Jamal is, with 28.5% against Jamaal's 7.3%.

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 Jamaal is used

Across 1910–2025, Jamaal was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 23,270 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 5,882
  2. 2Georgia1 in 9,091
  3. 3Florida1 in 10,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 10,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 12,500
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 12,500
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 12,500
  8. 8Virginia1 in 12,500

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. Jamaal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jamaal around the world

Where Jamaal 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #5,301
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #2,209
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Jamaal

People whose public names include Jamaal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jamaal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,077
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 844
Best rank ever
#286
1982
Peak year
1982
715 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,542
Count in 2025
26

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,925
1983
Peak year
1982
9 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jamaal

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

JamariJamirJamilJameyJamelJameelJamellJamarJamereJamarionJameerJamisonJaminJamallJamarrJamierJamonJamarcusJamalJamielJameirJammieJamarioJamaine

Names with a curve like Jamaal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jamaal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DemarioDustyJessicaJeradTyrelJeredBrentonJustineAmitMarquesAntwanCortney

Sibling names for Jamaal

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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