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Kamal

#2,906 in 2025Boys' name

Perfection

Kamal has been given to 3,101 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #2,906 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Kamal, 2025

1 in 77,100

Kamal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kamal: meaning, origin, and history

Perfection

Arabic

What Kamal means

Kamal means “perfection”, associated with kamāl.

Origin, language, and formation

Kamal is used in English, Azerbaijani and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Kamal comes through Arabic كَمَال.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include كَمَال, Kamala and कमल.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Kamal is pronounced /kamal/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,076 boys were recorded with the name Kamal between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,102 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,525 in 2020 to #2,906 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,506 in 2015 to #2,906 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Kamal between 1977 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1997; its best national rank was #8,661 in 1997.

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 Kamal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,906
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kamal 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kamals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamal was born before 2000 — so the typical Kamal is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (752).

Is Kamal 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
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−381
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−400
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.3%
Peak was 2009 (97)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,102
1979

Spellings of Kamal

Kamal is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 34.0% against Kamal'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 Kamal is used

Across 2016–2025, Kamal was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 63,837 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 20,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 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.

Kamal around the world

Where Kamal 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
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–1999
    #359
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    2003–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1950–2025
    #2,105
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2003
    #517
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2000
    #556
    in 2000

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

Notable people named Kamal

People whose public names include Kamal, 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.

Kamal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kamal. Linked forms have their own page here.

KemalGemalKamaljon

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kamal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,906
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 381
Best rank ever
#1,102
1979
Peak year
2009
97 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,076
Count in 2025
43

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,661
1997
Peak year
1997
10 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kamal

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

KamilKamarKamdynKamranKamrenKamauKamrynKamronKamelKamrinKamenKamariKamdenKamaniKamonKamirKamarionKamdonKamKamerynKamauriKamaziKamiloGamal

Names with a curve like Kamal

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

ArikSkyeKendricMathieuFabioTaronRomelStefanoNeftaliJobTarekPaolo

Sibling names for Kamal

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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