Meaning not yet researched.
Kamal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,102 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,102 in 1979; #2,907 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kamal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,907 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,102.
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Kamal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,102 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 97 (2009).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Kamal, making it the 2,907th most common boys’ name of the year, down 293 places from #2,614 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 51 boys named Kamal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,102, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 97, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,507 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kamal in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 3,101 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 752 babies named Kamal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 532 US boys were named Kamal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kamil (2,643 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kamel, Kemal and Kamaal 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kamel (599), Kemal (373), Kamaal (317), Kaamil (106), Kameel (47), Kahmel (16), Kameil (16), Kamyl (8), Kahmal (6), Kameal (5), Kamahl (5).
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 Kamal 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 | — | — | 43 | #2,907 |
| 2024 | — | — | 51 | #2,614 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,823 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,540 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,397 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,526 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,245 |
| 2018 | — | — | 64 | #2,183 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,436 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,452 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,507 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,734 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,315 |
| 2012 | — | — | 53 | #2,401 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,252 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #1,992 |
| 2009 | — | — | 97 | #1,632 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,222 |
| 2007 | — | — | 71 | #1,989 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,270 |
| 2005 | — | — | 79 | #1,700 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,867 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,920 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,464 |
| 2001 | — | — | 89 | #1,408 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,438 |
| 1999 | — | — | 74 | #1,524 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,731 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,666 | 69 | #1,514 |
| 1996 | — | — | 81 | #1,343 |
| 1995 | — | — | 73 | #1,386 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,444 |
| 1993 | — | — | 65 | #1,453 |
| 1992 | — | — | 54 | #1,628 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,173 | 57 | #1,538 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,716 |
| 1989 | — | — | 40 | #1,880 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,894 |
| 1987 | — | — | 46 | #1,552 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,678 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,630 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,494 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,501 |
| 1982 | — | — | 51 | #1,313 |
| 1981 | — | — | 40 | #1,529 |
| 1980 | — | — | 57 | #1,220 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,910 | 66 | #1,102 |
| 1978 | — | — | 60 | #1,139 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,307 | 59 | #1,132 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,588 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,857 |
| 1974 | — | — | 30 | #1,636 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,566 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,204 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,668 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #2,032 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,962 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,519 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,333 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,730 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,772 |
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).