Jahmal
Jahmal was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,211 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Jahmal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahmal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahmal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,486, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1993, the peak
Jahmal peaked in 1993, when 41 boys were given it, #1,972 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,486 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,226 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,900 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,864 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,337 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,805 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,408 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,711 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,440 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,082 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 18 | #5,115 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,518 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,845 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,358 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,395 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,087 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,939 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,246 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,682 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,309 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,044 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,579 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,104 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,313 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,816 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,700 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,058 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,265 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,055 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,972 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,425 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,257 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,454 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,376 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,961 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,949 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,120 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,759 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,645 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,525 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,181 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,292 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,638 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,191 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 30 | #1,772 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,302 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,686 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,909 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,907 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,899 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,891 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,082 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,015 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,609 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahmal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahmal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahmal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahmal, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,211 Americans ever recorded as Jahmal. The median Jahmal alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 932 people named Jahmal (4 women and girls, 928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 248 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 429 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 388 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 90 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jahmal born?
The states with the most babies named Jahmal are New York, California and Florida, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 118 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jahmal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahmal is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jahmal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jahmal?
Jahmal is a less common spelling of Jamal: SSA has recorded 1,211 Jahmal and 33,501 Jamal since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,539 babies since 1880, Jahmal is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 296 babies recorded by SSA was a Jahmal (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jahmal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jahmal and names like it
- Compare Jahmal and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJahmal peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahmal since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Jahmal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jahmal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.