first name
JAMAL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 29,768 people named Jamal, 73.5% reported their origin as Black, 13.5% as White and 5.6% as two or more races. 99.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jamal peaked in 1993, when 1,253 babies got the name.
At least 33,501 babies have been given the name since 1946. 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.
Jamal by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #546. The largest share of babies named Jamal, 43.8%, 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 Jamal is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jamal has been most common in District of Columbia (5.6×), Maryland (3.2×), and Louisiana (2.5×), and least common in Kentucky (0.14×).
30,898 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.
Either side of Jamal
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jamal, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jamal ranks #9,986 of 156,621, with 3,084 people. See Jamal as a last name
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