Meaning not yet researched.
Jamaal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #286 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #286 in 1982; #4,078 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamaal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,078 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #286.
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Jamaal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #286 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 715 (1982).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Jamaal, making it the 4,078th most common boys’ name of the year, down 659 places from #3,419 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 34 boys named Jamaal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #286, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 715. For comparison, it was #2,122 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamaal in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 8,587 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,919 babies named Jamaal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 449 US boys were named Jamaal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jamel (11,592 babies since 1880), Jamil (7,735 babies since 1880) and Jameel (3,058 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jamaal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 26 | #4,078 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,419 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,197 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,564 |
| 2021 | — | — | 48 | #2,671 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,235 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,504 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,860 |
| 2017 | — | — | 70 | #2,026 |
| 2016 | — | — | 71 | #2,018 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,122 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,217 |
| 2013 | — | — | 62 | #2,148 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,805 |
| 2011 | — | — | 75 | #1,879 |
| 2010 | — | — | 88 | #1,730 |
| 2009 | — | — | 102 | #1,585 |
| 2008 | — | — | 87 | #1,748 |
| 2007 | — | — | 118 | #1,391 |
| 2006 | — | — | 125 | #1,318 |
| 2005 | — | — | 117 | #1,304 |
| 2004 | — | — | 111 | #1,331 |
| 2003 | — | — | 117 | #1,238 |
| 2002 | — | — | 133 | #1,101 |
| 2001 | — | — | 101 | #1,301 |
| 2000 | — | — | 110 | #1,223 |
| 1999 | — | — | 122 | #1,098 |
| 1998 | — | — | 116 | #1,106 |
| 1997 | — | — | 112 | #1,127 |
| 1996 | — | — | 135 | #956 |
| 1995 | — | — | 144 | #924 |
| 1994 | — | — | 178 | #796 |
| 1993 | — | — | 193 | #753 |
| 1992 | — | — | 228 | #685 |
| 1991 | — | — | 255 | #641 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,835 | 228 | #671 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,376 | 245 | #638 |
| 1988 | — | — | 253 | #581 |
| 1987 | — | — | 264 | #559 |
| 1986 | — | — | 258 | #553 |
| 1985 | — | — | 347 | #463 |
| 1984 | — | — | 402 | #411 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,927 | 578 | #328 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,097 | 715 | #286 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,016 | 382 | #428 |
| 1980 | — | — | 446 | #382 |
| 1979 | — | — | 203 | #603 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,349 | 194 | #600 |
| 1977 | — | — | 208 | #579 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,531 | 230 | #532 |
| 1975 | — | — | 63 | #1,047 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,992 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,556 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,296 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,047 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,467 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).