Jalal
Jalal was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,926 among boys’ names; 755 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalal?
#4,926 among boys’ names, 2025
Jalal rose from #9,085 in 2015 to #4,926 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 11.7 per million.
23 babies in 2003, the peak
Jalal peaked in 2003, when 23 boys were given it, #3,768 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,926 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,312 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,322 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,591 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,303 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,326 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,691 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,503 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,822 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,015 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,085 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,844 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,050 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,120 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,375 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,342 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,581 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,338 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,761 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,126 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,909 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,667 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,768 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,379 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,981 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,884 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,436 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,497 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,420 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,897 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,921 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,664 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,146 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,512 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,256 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,896 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,378 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,285 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,378 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,934 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,879 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,550 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,288 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,370 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,693 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,009 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,202 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,128 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,471 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,155 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,832 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,882 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,257 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,293 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jalal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jalal 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 Jalal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalal, and how old are they?
An estimated 732 Americans named Jalal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,720 people named Jalal (14 women and girls, 1,706 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,240 babies since 1880, Jalal is the fourth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 222 babies (9.0%), again the fourth most given.
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 Jalal
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 Jalal and names like it
- Compare Jalal and JaleelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJalal peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalal since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jalal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jalal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.