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Jemal

Boys' name

Form of Jamal

Jemal has been given to 901 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1969, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Jemal, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jemal: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jamal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jemal means

Jemal is a form of Jamal.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jemal is used in Amharic and Georgian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒɛ.mɑl/ for Jemal.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jemal → 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, 901 boys were recorded with the name Jemal between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 204 in 1969; its best national rank was #549 in 1969.

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 Jemal?

Jemal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jemal 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jemals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemal was born before 1977 — so the typical Jemal is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
901
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Jemal 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 1969 (204)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#549
1969

Spellings of Jemal

Jemal is not the most common spelling — Neal is, with 21.3% against Jemal's 0.35%.

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 Jemal is used

Across 1910–2025, Jemal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 277,727 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Maryland1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Jemal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jemal around the world

Where Jemal 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    1973–1981
    #2,393
    in 1981
  • South Australia
    1970–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jemal 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
#549
1969
Peak year
1969
204 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
901
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jemal

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

JemelJemariGamalJemarKemalKamalJemuelJemirAmalJermalJahmalMalErmalJemellJemmieJemiahJemeryJammalJemaineRamalJarmalJemarcusJemilVimal

Sibling names for Jemal

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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