Meaning not yet researched.
Jamel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #467 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #467 in 1983; #2,779 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jamel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,779 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #467.
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Jamel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #467 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 360 (1988).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Jamel, making it the 2,779th most common boys’ name of the year, up 30 places from #2,809 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 46 boys named Jamel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #467, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 360, in 1988. For comparison, it was #1,422 in 2015 and #3,930 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jamel in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 11,592 US babies have been given the name, 3.2% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,195 babies named Jamel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 750 US boys were named Jamel; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jamel ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,244 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jamal (33,501 babies since 1880), Jamaal (8,587 babies since 1880), Jamil (7,735 babies since 1880) and Jameel (3,058 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jamelle, Jahmiel and Jahmeel 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: Jamelle (1,198), Jahmiel (85), Jahmeel (21), Jameele (10), Jahmell (8).
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 Jamel 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,244 | #917 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 46 | #2,779 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,809 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,454 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,257 |
| 2021 | — | — | 83 | #1,859 |
| 2020 | — | — | 82 | #1,821 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,923 |
| 2018 | — | — | 88 | #1,752 |
| 2017 | — | — | 105 | #1,560 |
| 2016 | — | — | 104 | #1,581 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,422 |
| 2014 | — | — | 103 | #1,554 |
| 2013 | — | — | 139 | #1,258 |
| 2012 | — | — | 141 | #1,255 |
| 2011 | — | — | 149 | #1,189 |
| 2010 | — | — | 178 | #1,082 |
| 2009 | — | — | 205 | #975 |
| 2008 | — | — | 182 | #1,043 |
| 2007 | — | — | 205 | #964 |
| 2006 | — | — | 194 | #960 |
| 2005 | — | — | 207 | #882 |
| 2004 | — | — | 182 | #930 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,782 | 200 | #864 |
| 2002 | — | — | 218 | #791 |
| 2001 | — | — | 191 | #845 |
| 2000 | — | — | 201 | #802 |
| 1999 | — | — | 237 | #706 |
| 1998 | — | — | 214 | #751 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,309 | 201 | #749 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,409 | 247 | #667 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,056 | 227 | #703 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,291 | 301 | #598 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,945 | 287 | #615 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,923 | 307 | #587 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,747 | 345 | #547 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,511 | 359 | #519 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,176 | 347 | #514 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,024 | 360 | #485 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,068 | 331 | #486 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,815 | 328 | #483 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,474 | 303 | #500 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,661 | 287 | #501 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,584 | 319 | #467 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,033 | 283 | #505 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,665 | 238 | #549 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,206 | 276 | #511 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,300 | 273 | #506 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,776 | 295 | #472 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,639 | 235 | #542 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,446 | 230 | #533 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,225 | 185 | #593 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,466 | 151 | #655 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,452 | 136 | #684 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,772 | 93 | #836 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,257 | 78 | #925 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,119 | 37 | #1,384 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,039 | 47 | #1,140 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,433 | 20 | #1,806 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,750 | 13 | #2,289 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,967 | 10 | #2,705 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,100 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,172 | 9 | #2,951 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,173 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,822 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,965 | 8 | #3,215 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,302 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,259 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,191 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,930 |
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).