Meaning not yet researched.
Jamal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #233 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #233 in 1993; #1,197 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,197 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #233.
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Jamal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #233 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 1,245 (1993).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Jamal, making it the 1,197th most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #1,184 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 175 boys named Jamal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #233, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,245. For comparison, it was #739 in 2015 and #3,488 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamal in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 33,501 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,312 babies named Jamal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,492 US boys were named Jamal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 353. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamal ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #617 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamar (16,037 babies since 1880), Jemal (901 babies since 1880), Jamel (11,592 babies since 1880) and Jamaal (8,587 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jama, Jahmal and Jamiel are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jama (1,653), Jahmal (1,211), Jamiel (883), Jamahl (734), Jahmel (660), Jamaul (528), Jamale (495), Jamile (433), Jamael (417), Jamill (395), Jamail (349), Jammal (295), and more.
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 Jamal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 13 | #617 | #611 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #712 | #597 |
| Florida | 18 | #826 | #468 |
| Ohio | 10 | #829 | #752 |
| Maryland | 5 | #853 | #383 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #876 | #676 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,080 | #792 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,231 | #926 |
| New York | 8 | #1,351 | #711 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,373 | #531 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,428 | #418 |
| California | 11 | #1,541 | #943 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 169 | #1,197 |
| 2024 | — | — | 175 | #1,184 |
| 2023 | — | — | 211 | #1,036 |
| 2022 | — | — | 201 | #1,087 |
| 2021 | — | — | 267 | #868 |
| 2020 | — | — | 245 | #912 |
| 2019 | — | — | 258 | #860 |
| 2018 | — | — | 305 | #768 |
| 2017 | — | — | 308 | #762 |
| 2016 | — | — | 353 | #703 |
| 2015 | — | — | 330 | #739 |
| 2014 | — | — | 306 | #766 |
| 2013 | — | — | 303 | #752 |
| 2012 | — | — | 345 | #690 |
| 2011 | — | — | 351 | #673 |
| 2010 | — | — | 407 | #609 |
| 2009 | — | — | 410 | #613 |
| 2008 | — | — | 456 | #567 |
| 2007 | — | — | 483 | #532 |
| 2006 | — | — | 514 | #505 |
| 2005 | — | — | 553 | #463 |
| 2004 | — | — | 589 | #442 |
| 2003 | — | — | 655 | #398 |
| 2002 | — | — | 726 | #363 |
| 2001 | — | — | 786 | #346 |
| 2000 | — | — | 726 | #366 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,333 | 798 | #335 |
| 1998 | — | — | 689 | #372 |
| 1997 | — | — | 835 | #317 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,023 | 988 | #282 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,981 | 1,059 | #266 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,231 | #240 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,943 | 1,245 | #233 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,921 | 1,196 | #240 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,112 | #249 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,046 | 1,112 | #247 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,300 | 1,104 | #239 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,717 | 1,020 | #237 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,286 | 988 | #238 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,327 | 807 | #269 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,685 | 620 | #323 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,465 | 517 | #354 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,562 | 466 | #374 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,032 | 561 | #336 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,663 | 523 | #343 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,343 | 581 | #327 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,926 | 526 | #343 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,112 | 553 | #317 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,840 | 583 | #319 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,222 | 552 | #320 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,740 | 469 | #357 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,932 | 458 | #359 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,929 | 418 | #376 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,903 | 434 | #377 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,809 | 414 | #399 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,556 | 284 | #477 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,947 | 255 | #480 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,863 | 88 | #790 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,188 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,635 | 37 | #1,247 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,691 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,676 |
| 1963 | — | — | 26 | #1,559 |
| 1962 | — | — | 24 | #1,642 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,714 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,837 |
| 1959 | — | — | 28 | #1,513 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,928 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,138 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,349 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,601 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,539 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,956 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,488 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,991 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,338 |
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).