first name
JAMAAL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,180 people named Jamaal, 89.6% reported their origin as Black, 4.8% as two or more races and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jamaal peaked in 1982, when 724 babies got the name.
At least 8,587 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jamaal by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #961. The largest share of babies named Jamaal, 56.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jamaal is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamaal has been most common in District of Columbia (4.5×), Georgia (2.9×), and Florida (2.6×), and least common in Missouri (0.34×).
6,570 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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